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ἐκστατικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐκστατικός ἐκστατική ἐκστατικόν

Structure: ἐκστατικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. inclined to depart from

Declension

First/Second 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

  • "ἀλλ’ ἵνα τἄλλα ἐάσω, τί μᾶλλον ἐναργὲσ οὕτωσ ἐστὶ καὶ πεπιστευμένον, ὡσ τὸ παρορᾶν καὶ παρακούειν ἐν πάθεσιν ἐκστατικοῖσ καὶ μελαγχολικοῖσ ὄντα, ὅταν ἡ διάνοια τοιαῦτα πάσχῃ καὶ ταράττηται αἳ δέ με δᾳδοφόροι μελανείμονεσ ὄμμα πυροῦσι καὶ ἔχουσα; (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 28 1:1)
  • ἐκστατικὸν γὰρ ἀμφοῖν ἡ κίνησισ. (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 15 3:2)
  • καὶ καθάπερ αἱ τῶν μασχαλῶν ψηλαφήσεισ οὐκ ἴδιον οὐδὲ πρᾶον οὐδ’ ἵλεων γέλωτα τῇ ψυχῇ παρέχουσιν ἀλλ’ ἐοικότα σπασμῷ καὶ χαλεπόν, οὕτω πάλιν ὅσασ τὸ σῶμα νυττόμενον ὑπὸ τῆσ ψυχῆσ ἡδονὰσ ἴσχει καὶ ταραττόμενον, ἐκστατικαὶ καὶ ταρακτικαὶ αὗται καὶ ἀλλότριαι τῆσ φύσεώσ εἰσιν. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 7 4:1)
  • "τὰ μὲν ἀνιέντασ ἐν καιρῷ τὰ δ’ ἐπιτείνοντασ, καὶ τὸ ἄγαν ἐκστατικὸν αὐτῆσ καὶ ταρακτικὸν ἀφαιροῦντασ τὸ δὲ κινητικὸν ἀλύπωσ καὶ ἀβλαβῶσ τοῖσ χρωμένοισ καταμιγνύντασ ἀπολείποντεσ, οὐδὲν ἄλογον ποιεῖν οὐδ’ ἀδύνατον δόξομεν. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 489)
  • ἐκστατικὸν γὰρ ὁ θυμόσ. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 26:1)
  • δοκεῖ δὴ ἥ τε ἐγκράτεια καὶ καρτερία τῶν σπουδαίων καὶ τῶν ἐπαινετῶν εἶναι, ἡ δ’ ἀκρασία τε καὶ μαλακία τῶν φαύλων καὶ ψεκτῶν, καὶ ὁ αὐτὸσ ἐγκρατὴσ καὶ ἐμμενετικὸσ τῷ λογισμῷ, καὶ ἀκρατὴσ καὶ ἐκστατικὸσ τοῦ λογισμοῦ. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 7 8:2)
  • ἔστι δέ τισ διὰ πάθοσ ἐκστατικὸσ παρὰ τὸν ὀρθὸν λόγον, ὃν ὥστε μὲν μὴ πράττειν κατὰ τὸν ὀρθὸν λόγον κρατεῖ τὸ πάθοσ, ὥστε δ’ εἶναι τοιοῦτον οἱο͂ν πεπεῖσθαι διώκειν ἀνέδην δεῖν τὰσ τοιαύτασ ἡδονὰσ οὐ κρατεῖ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 7 108:1)
  • ἄλλοσ δ’ ἐναντίοσ, ὁ ἐμμενετικὸσ καὶ οὐκ ἐκστατικὸσ διά γε τὸ πάθοσ. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 7 109:2)

Synonyms

  1. inclined to depart from

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

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