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ἀντίκειμαι

-μι athematic Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀντίκειμαι

Structure: ἀντι (Prefix) + κεί (Stem) + μαι (Ending)

Etym.: used as pass. of a)ntiti/qhmi

Sense

  1. to be set over against, lie opposite, by way of opposition

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

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

  • γινώσκετε γὰρ ὅτι κατὰ τούτων, ἐάν τι κακοτεχνήσωμεν πονηρὸν ἢ ἐπιλυπήσωμεν αὐτοὺσ τὸ σύνολον, οὐκ ἄνθρωπον, ἀλλὰ τὸν πάσησ δεσπόζοντα δυνάμεωσ Θεὸν ὕψιστον ἀντικείμενον ἡμῖν ἐπ̓ ἐκδικήσει τῶν πραγμάτων κατὰ πᾶν ἀφεύκτωσ διὰ παντὸσ ἕξομεν. ἔρρωσθε». (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 7:9)
  • τὸ δ’ ἐνδεχόμενον δυνατόν, οὗ καὶ τὸ ἀντικείμενον δυνατόν. (Plutarch, De fato, section 6 10:1)
  • τὸ μὲν ἐνδεχόμενον ὅπερ αὐτό τε καὶ τὸ ἀντικείμενον, τὸ δ’ ἐφ’ ἡμῖν θάτερον μέροσ τοῦ ἐνδεχομένου τὸ κατὰ τὴν ἡμετέραν ὁρμὴν ἤδη γιγνόμενον. (Plutarch, De fato, section 6 16:1)
  • τῷ τοίνυν καταφρονεῖν τὸ θαυμάζειν ἀντικείμενον εὐγνωμονεστέρασ μέν ἐστι δήπου καὶ ἡμερωτέρασ φύσεωσ, δεῖταί γε μὴν οὐδ’ αὐτὸ μικρᾶσ εὐλαβείασ, τάχα δὲ καὶ μείζονοσ· (Plutarch, De Recta Ratione Audiendi, chapter, section 71)
  • πυρίαν περιχεαμένων ψυχρὸν ἀνιὼν ἀτμὸσ ἐνδείκνυται τὴν εἰσ ἀέρα τοῦ θερμοῦ φθειρομένου 1 μεταβολήν, ὡσ φύσει πρὸσ τὸ πῦρ ἀντικείμενον · (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 10 3:3)

Synonyms

  1. to be set over against

Derived

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

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