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ἐπιτήδευσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιτήδευσις ἐπιτήδευσεως

Structure: ἐπιτηδευσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from e)pithdeu/w

Sense

  1. devotion or attention to, refinements

Examples

  • τοῖσ μὲν οὖν ἀρχαίοισ ὀλίγου δεῖν πᾶσι πολλὴ ἐπιτήδευσισ ἦν αὐτοῦ, παρ’ ὃ καὶ καλά ἐστιν αὐτῶν τά τε μέτρα καὶ τὰ μέλη καὶ οἱ λόγοι· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 449)
  • ἀθάνατόν τε ἰσχὺν ταῖσ ψυχαῖσ πίστισ αὐτοῖσ εἶναι καὶ ὑπὸ χθονὸσ δικαιώσεισ τε καὶ τιμὰσ οἷσ ἀρετῆσ ἢ κακίασ ἐπιτήδευσισ ἐν τῷ βίῳ γέγονεν, καὶ ταῖσ μὲν εἱργμὸν ἀίδιον προτίθεσθαι, ταῖσ δὲ ῥᾳστώνην τοῦ ἀναβιοῦν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 18 18:1)
  • Παυλῖνα ἦν τῶν ἐπὶ Ῥώμησ προγόνων τε ἀξιώματι τῶν καθ’ ἑαυτὴν ἐπιτηδεύοντι κόσμον ἀρετῆσ ἐπὶ μέγα προϊοῦσα τῷ ὀνόματι, δύναμίσ τε αὐτῇ χρημάτων ἦν καὶ γεγονυῖα τὴν ὄψιν εὐπρεπὴσ καὶ τῆσ ὡρ́ασ ἐν ᾗ μάλιστα ἀγάλλονται αἱ γυναῖκεσ εἰσ τὸ σωφρονεῖν ἀνέκειτο ἡ ἐπιτήδευσισ τοῦ βίου. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 18 84:1)

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

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