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ἀντιμηχανάομαι

α-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀντιμηχανάομαι

Structure: ἀντιμηχανά (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to contrive against, in opposition

Conjugation

Present 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

  • Οἱ δὲ Τύριοι πρὸσ ταῦτα ἀντιμηχανῶνται τοιόνδε. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 2, chapter 18 6:4)
  • τῶν δὲ πολεμίων ἐξελθόντων καὶ παραταξαμένων οὐχ ὁμοῦ διχῇ δέ, τὸ μὲν γὰρ ἐπικουρικὸν ἐν τῷ πεδίῳ καθ’ αὑτὸ ἐτάχθη, τὸ δὲ τῶν Ἀμμανιτῶν στράτευμα πρὸσ ταῖσ πύλαισ ἀντικρὺ τῶν Ἑβραίων, ἰδὼν τοῦτο Ιὤαβοσ ἀντιμηχανᾶται· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 7 151:2)
  • τῶν δὲ κριῶν τυπτόντων ἐνεργῶσ τὰ τείχη, καὶ τῶν δορυδρεπάνων ἀποσυρόντων τὰσ ἐπάλξεισ, ἐπειρῶντο μὲν οἱ κατὰ τὴν πόλιν ἀντιμηχανᾶσθαι πρὸσ ταῦτα, τοῖσ μὲν κριοῖσ διὰ κεραιῶν ἐνιέντεσ σηκώματα μολιβδᾶ καὶ λίθουσ καὶ στύπη δρύινα· (Polybius, Histories, book 21, chapter 27 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. to contrive against

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

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