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ἀπερίληπτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπερίληπτος ἀπερίληπτη ἀπερίληπτον

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

Etym.: perilamba/nw

Sense

  1. uncircumscribed

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

  • ἀναγνωσθέντων δὲ τούτων ὁ μὲν δῆμοσ ὑπερφυῶσ ἐδέξατο, τῆσ δὲ συγκλήτου τοῖσ μεγίστοισ καὶ δυνατωτάτοισ ἔδοξε μεῖζον μὲν φθόνου, φόβου δὲ ἄξιον εἶναι τὸ τῆσ ἐξουσίασ ἀπερίληπτον καὶ ἀόριστον. (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 25 3:2)
  • σχεδὸν γὰρ οὐ μόνοισ ἡμῖν ἀλλὰ πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποισ τὰ μὲν ὄντα φυλάξαντεσ, μείζω δὲ τῶν ἐλπισθέντων προσθέντεσ εὐεργετεῖτε τῷ κρατεῖν, καὶ δύναιτ’ ἄν τισ ἐπεξιὼν τὰσ ἑκάστων εὐτυχίασ, ἃσ δι’ ὑμῶν ἔχουσιν, ἀπερίληπτον ποιῆσαι τὸν λόγον. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 16 57:1)

Derived

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

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