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ἐξάγιστος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐξάγιστος ἐξάγιστον

Structure: ἐξαγιστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)cagi/zw

Sense

  1. devoted to evil, accursed, abominable
  2. holy things, matters of religion

Examples

  • ὅτι ἀμηχανοῦντα τὸν Πύρρον καὶ πόρουσ παντοδαποὺσ ἐπιζητοῦντα ὁρῶντεσ οἱ κάκιστοι καὶ ἀνοσιώτατοι τῶν φίλων, Εὐήγοροσ Θεοδώρου καὶ Βάλακροσ Νικάνδρου καὶ Δείναρχοσ Νικίου, τῶν ἀθέων καὶ ἐξαγίστων δογμάτων ζηλωταί, πόρον ὑποτίθενται χρημάτων ἀνοσίων, τοὺσ ἱεροὺσ ἀνοῖξαι τῆσ Περσεφόνησ θησαυρούσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 20, chapter 9 2:1)
  • διωμολογήθη δ’ αὐτῷ καὶ εἰσ τὸν λοιπὸν χρόνον ἀποστέλλεσθαι Ἀθήναζε τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ ἑκάστου μνᾶσ εἴκοσιν ἐκ τῶν ἐξαγίστων καὶ ἐπαράτων χρημάτων, ἐφ’ ᾧτε βοηθήσει τοῖσ Ἀμφισσεῦσιν Ἀθήνησι κατὰ πάντα τρόπον· (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 1142)

Synonyms

  1. devoted to evil

Related

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

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