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ἄκοσμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄκοσμος ἄκοσμον

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

Sense

  1. without order, disorderly, disorderly
  2. is no world, inappropriate

Examples

  • τοιαῦτα διαφερομένων τῶν ὑπάτων κατὰ σφᾶσ αὐτοὺσ καὶ ὁπότε συναχθείη συνέδριον καὶ συλλαμβανόντων πολλῶν ἑκατέρῳ, ἡ μὲν βουλὴ φιλονεικίασ καὶ θορύβουσ καὶ λόγουσ ἀκόσμουσ, οἷσ ἀλλήλουσ προὐπηλάκιζον, ἀκούσασα, σωτήριον δὲ βούλευμα οὐδὲν καθισταμένη, διελύετο. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 6, chapter 24 5:5)

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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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