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δίωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: δίωσις δίωσεως

Structure: διωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a pushing off, delaying

Declension

Third 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

  • κωλυόμενον δὲ κάτω ποιεῖσθαι τὴν δίωσιν, ὅταν ἐνταυθοῖ ποτε τὸ σφοδρότατον ᾖ τῆσ φλεγμονῆσ, εἰσ τὰ πλησιάζοντα τῶν ὑπερκειμένων ἐντέρων ἀπωθεῖται. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., G, section 1349)
  • καὶ ὅσοισ μὴ λανθάνουσιν ἔστιν δίωσισ δίκησ ἢ ἀναβολὴ χρόνου ἢ διαφθοραὶ κριτῶν. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 12 8:2)
  • καὶ οἷσ, ἐὰν γένηται ζημία, ἔστιν δίωσισ τῆσ ἐκτίσεωσ ἢ ἀναβολὴ χρόνιοσ. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 12 8:3)
  • Καὶ τὰσ αἱμοῤῬοί̈δασ τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον διώσεισ τῇ βελόνῃ, ὡσ παχύτατον εἰρίου οἰσυπηροῦ Ῥάμμα καὶ ὡσ μέγιστον ἀποδήσασ, ἀσφαλεστέρη γὰρ γίγνεται ἡ θεραπείη‧ εἶτα ἀποπιέσασ, τῷ σηπτῷ χρέο, καὶ μὴ βρέχε πρὶν ἀποπέσῃ, καὶ αἰεὶ μίην καταλίμπανε, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα ἀναλαβὼν ἐλλεβορίσαι. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 29.3)
  • ἰδὼν δ’ ἀμηχανοῦντά σε Ζεὺσ "οἰκτερεῖ, νεφέλην δ’ ὑποσχὼν νιφάδι γογγύλων πέτρων ὑπόσκιον θήσει χθόν’, οἷσ ἔπειτα σὺ βαλὼν "διώσει ῥᾳδίωσ Λίγυν στρατόν. (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 1 14:17)

Synonyms

  1. a pushing off

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

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