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ἐξομοίωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐξομοίωσις ἐξομοίωσεως

Structure: ἐξομοιωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a becoming like

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

  • τὴν δ’ οὐσίαν καὶ ὕλην, ἐξ ἡ γέγονεν, οὐ γενομένην ἀλλ’ ὑποκειμένην ἀεὶ τῷ δημιουργῷ εἰσ διάθεσιν καὶ τάξιν αὑτῆσ καὶ πρὸσ αὐτὸν ἐξομοίωσιν ὡσ δυνατὸν ἦν ἐμπαρασχεῖν. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 5 4:2)
  • "ἀλλὰ σκοπεῖτε πρῶτον, ὅτι κατὰ Πλάτωνα πάντων καλῶν ὁ θεὸσ ἑαυτὸν ἐν μέσῳ παράδειγμα θέμενοσ, τὴν ἀνθρωπίνην ἀρετήν, ἐξομοίωσιν οὖσαν ἁμωσγέπωσ πρὸσ αὑτόν, ἐνδίδωσι τοῖσ ἕπεσθαι θεῷ δυναμένοισ. (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 52)
  • ἢ τοῦτο πρὸσ τὴν μεταβολὴν πιθανῶσ λέλεκται πρὸσ δὲ τὴν ἐξομοίωσιν οὐχ ἱκανῶσ; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Naturales, chapter 19 1:2)
  • ἐκεῖ μὲν γὰρ οὐκ ὂν πρότερον ὕστερον ἐγένετο, κατὰ δὲ τὴν θρέψιν τῷ ἤδη γεγονότι συνεξομοιοῦται τὸ ἐπιρρέον καὶ διὰ τοῦτ’ εὐλόγωσ ἐκείνην μὲν τὴν ἀλλοίωσιν γένεσιν, ταύτην δ’ ἐξομοίωσιν ὠνόμασαν. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., , section 84)
  • καὶ δῆλον ἐν τῷδε τὸ μικρῷ πρόσθεν Ῥηθὲν ὡσ ὀρθῶσ ἐλέγετο τὸ δεῖν πρόσθεσιν μὲν πρῶτον, ἐφεξῆσ δὲ πρόσφύσιν, ἔπειτ’ ἐξομοίωσιν γενέσθαι τῷ μέλλοντι τρέφεσθαι. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., , section 1111)

Synonyms

  1. a becoming like

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

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