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ἀνεξέταστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνεξέταστος ἀνεξέταστη ἀνεξέταστον

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

Etym.: e)ceta/zw

Sense

  1. not inquired into or examined
  2. uninquiring

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • τοιγαροῦν πολλῶν κακῶν ὁ βίοσ ἐπλήσθη ὑπὸ τῶν οὕτω ῥᾳδίωσ καὶ ἀνεξετάστωσ πεπιστευμένων διαβολῶν. (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 26:1)
  • οὔκουν ἡγεῖτο ἀδίκαστον γίγνεσθαι τὸ πρᾶγμα οὐδ’ ἐξ ἐρήμησ τοὺσ παῖδασ εὐθὺσ ἁλίσκεσθαι, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὕδωρ ἐγχεῖται καὶ λόγοσ ἀποδίδοται καὶ ἀνεξέταστον οὐδὲν καταλείπεται. (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 8:4)
  • τοῦτο τοίνυν ὑπερβὰσ ὁ πατὴρ καὶ ὅλον ἀνεξέταστον καταλιπὼν ἀξιοῖ πᾶσαν μανίαν τὴν ἐν ἅπαντι σώματι ὁμοίαν εἶναι καὶ τὴν θεραπείαν ἴσην. (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 27:7)
  • 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)
  • "δοκιμάζουσί τινεσ τὰ ὕδατα σταθμῷ ἀνεξετάστωσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 25 1:1)
  • ἐάντ’ αὖ λέγω ὅτι καὶ τυγχάνει μέγιστον ἀγαθὸν ὂν ἀνθρώπῳ τοῦτο, ἑκάστησ ἡμέρασ περὶ ἀρετῆσ τοὺσ λόγουσ ποιεῖσθαι καὶ τῶν ἄλλων περὶ ὧν ὑμεῖσ ἐμοῦ ἀκούετε διαλεγομένου καὶ ἐμαυτὸν καὶ ἄλλουσ ἐξετάζοντοσ, ὁ δὲ ἀνεξέταστοσ βίοσ οὐ βιωτὸσ ἀνθρώπῳ, ταῦτα δ’ ἔτι ἧττον πείσεσθέ μοι λέγοντι. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 196:1)
  • Τρίτοσ ἐστὶν ὁ ἤδη τοῖσ προκόπτουσιν ἐπιβάλλων, ὁ περὶ τὴν αὐτῶν τούτων ἀσφάλειαν, ἵνα μηδ’ ἐν ὕπνοισ λάθῃ τισ ἀνεξέταστοσ παρελθοῦσα φαντασία μηδ’ ἐν οἰνώσει μηδὲ μελαγχολῶντοσ. (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 4:3)

Synonyms

  1. not inquired into or examined

Related

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

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