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ἀδόκιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀδόκιμος ἀδόκιμη ἀδόκιμον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + δοκιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. not standing the test, spurious
  2. rejected as false, disreputable, reprobate

Examples

  • νῦν δέ τισ κἂν καταπτύσειε τῶν πατέρων ἐνίων, οἵτινεσ πρὶν δοκιμάσαι τοὺσ μέλλοντασ διδάσκειν, δι’ ἄγνοιαν, ἔσθ’ ὅτε καὶ δι’ ἀπειρίαν, ἀνθρώποισ ἀδοκίμοισ καὶ παρασήμοισ ἐγχειρίζουσι τοὺσ παῖδασ. (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 7 7:1)
  • ἔπειτα ὑπὸ τῶν χρωμένων ἐκτρίβεται καὶ τελευταῖον ἐν τοῖσ ἀδοκίμοισ ἐγένετο. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 48:3)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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