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δίωσις?

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: diōsis

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 αἱμοῤῬοΐδας 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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