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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

  • ἢν δέ τισ ἁλῷ τῶν ἀδοκίμων καὶ ἅπαξ ὑπὸ τῶν ἐπιγνωμόνων ἐκκριθέντων ἐπιβαίνων τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, ἐσ τὸν Τάρταρον ἐμπεσεῖν τοῦτον. (Lucian, Deorum concilium, (no name) 15:4)
  • τῶν δ’ ἀνεξετάστωσ παραρρυέντων ὥσπερ νομισμάτων ἀδοκίμων ἐλεγχομένων οἱ μὲν ἐστερημένοι χαίρουσιν, οἱ δ’ ἔχοντεσ εὔχονται φυγεῖν ἔστι δὲ τοῦτο χαλεπὸν καὶ οὐ ῥᾴδιον, τὸ φυγεῖν ἢ ἀποθέσθαι δυσαρεστουμένην φιλίαν. (Plutarch, De amicorum multitudine, chapter, section 3 9:1)
  • τί γὰρ ἄλλο ἢ δύναμιν δοκιμαστικήν τε καὶ διακριτικὴν τῶν δοκίμων τε καὶ ἀδοκίμων δραχμῶν; (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 7:3)
  • εἶναι δὲ καὶ δοκίμων ἀνδρῶν βίουσ, τοὺσ μὲν ἐπὶ εἴδεσιν καὶ κατὰ κάλλη καὶ τὴν ἄλλην ἰσχύν τε καὶ ἀγωνίαν, τοὺσ δ’ ἐπὶ γένεσιν καὶ προγόνων ἀρεταῖσ, καὶ ἀδοκίμων κατὰ ταῦτα, ὡσαύτωσ δὲ καὶ γυναικῶν. (Plato, Republic, book 10 456:5)

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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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