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ἀσχημάτιστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀσχημάτιστος

Structure: ἀσχηματιστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: sxhmati/zw

Sense

  1. without form or figure

Examples

  • τὸ δὲ κατάγλωσσον τῆσ λέξεωσ καὶ ξένον καὶ ποιητικὸν οὐχ ἡγησάμενοσ ἐπιτήδεια τοῖσ ἀληθινοῖσ ἀγῶσι παρέλιπε, καὶ οὐδὲ τῶν σχημάτων τὸ πεπλανημένον ἐκ τῆσ κατὰ φύσιν ἀκολουθίασ καὶ τὸ σολοικοφανὲσ ἠγάπησεν, ἀλλ’ ἐν τοῖσ συνήθεσιν ἔμεινε, ταῖσ μεταβολαῖσ καὶ τῇ ποικιλίᾳ καὶ τῷ μηδὲν ἁπλῶσ ἀσχημάτιστον ἐκφέρειν νόημα κοσμῶν τὴν φράσιν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 532)
  • Ἀριστοτέλησ καὶ Πλάτων τὴν ὕλην σωματοειδῆ ἄμορφον ἀνείδεον ἀσχημάτιστον ἄποιον μὲν ὅσον ἐπὶ τῇ ἰδίᾳ φύσει , δεξαμενὴν δὲ τῶν εἰδῶν οἱο͂ν τιθήνην καὶ ἐκμαγεῖον καὶ μητέρα γενέσθαι. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 1, 3:2)
  • εἶναι δὲ τὴν ὕλην ἀσχημάτιστον καὶ ἄπειρον, ἐξ ἧσ γίνεσθαι τὰ συγκρίματα. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, G, PLATWN 68:4)

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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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