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ἐπισπαστός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπισπαστός ἐπισπαστή ἐπισπαστόν

Structure: ἐπισπαστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from e)pispa/w

Sense

  1. drawn upon oneself
  2. tight-drawn

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

  • τί οὖν μαθόντεσ εἰπέ μοι πράγματα ἡμῖν αὐτοῖσ παρέχομεν καὶ ὀνειρώττομεν καὶ περὶ τῆσ σκιᾶσ μαχόμεθα καὶ παρὸν ἡμῖν τῆσ ἡσυχίασ ἀπολαύειν, ἣν οὗτοι καλῶσ ποιοῦντεσ παρασκευάζουσι, τούτοισ τε ἐνοχλοῦμεν οὐδὲν δεομένοισ καὶ αὐτοὶ κακῶν ἐπισπάστων ἐπιθυμοῦμεν, ὥσπερ οὐκ ἔχοντεσ τοῖσ ἀγαθοῖσ ὅ τι χρησόμεθα; (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 17:5)

Synonyms

  1. drawn upon oneself

  2. tight-drawn

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

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