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ἐγχείρησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐγχείρησις ἐγχείρησεως

Structure: ἐγχειρησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from e)gxeire/w

Sense

  1. a taking in hand, undertaking

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

  • οὐδενὸσ δ’ αὐτὸν οὐδ’ ὑφισταμένου, ἀλλ’ ὡσ ἐναγῆ πάντων ἐκτρεπομένων, ὁ μὲν Γράκχοσ καὶ ὁ Φλάκκοσ ἀπορούμενοι καὶ τὸν καιρὸν ὧν ἐβουλεύοντο διὰ τὸ φθάσαι τὴν ἐγχείρησιν ἀπολωλεκότεσ ἐσ τὰσ οἰκίασ διέτρεχον, καὶ οἱ συνθέμενοι αὐτοῖσ συνῄεσαν ἐσ αὐτάσ, τὸ δ’ ἄλλο πλῆθοσ ἐκ μέσων νυκτῶν ὡσ ἐπὶ δή τινι κακῷ τὴν ἀγορὰν προκατελάμβανον. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, chapter 3 8:8)
  • Μινουκιανὸσ δὲ τὰ μὲν Λεπίδου τε ἐκδικία, φίλον γὰρ αὐτῷ τὰ μάλιστα ὄντα τοῦτον καὶ τῶν πολιτῶν σὺν ὀλίγοισ ἀναιρεῖ Γάιοσ, καὶ ἄλλωσ φοβηθεὶσ τὰ περὶ αὐτὸν διὰ τὸ πᾶσιν ὁμοίωσ τὸν Γάιον ἐπὶ θάνατον ἀνακειμένην ἐπαφιέναι τὴν ὀργὴν ἐπὶ τὴν ἐγχείρησιν ἐλθεῖν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 19 24:1)

Synonyms

  1. a taking in hand

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

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