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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

  • 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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