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ἐπιχειροτονία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιχειροτονία

Structure: ἐπιχειροτονι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from e)pixeirotone/w

Sense

  1. a voting by show of hands

Examples

  • οὐ διὰ μὲν τὴν τούτου πονηρίαν ἁδελφὸσ αὐτοῦ θεσμοθετῶν καὶ τούτῳ χρώμενοσ συμβούλῳ τοιοῦτοσ ἔδοξε παρ’ ὑμῖν ἄνθρωποσ εἶναι, ὥστε οὐ μόνον αὐτὸσ ἀπεχειροτο‐ νήθη τῶν ἐπιχειροτονιῶν οὐσῶν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν ἀρχὴν ἅπασαν ἐποίησεν; (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 43:4)

Synonyms

  1. a voting by show of hands

Related

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

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