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καθαίρεσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: καθαίρεσις καθαίρεσεως

Structure: καθαιρεσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: kaqaire/w

Sense

  1. a pulling down, rasing to the ground, destruction

Declension

Third 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

  • καὶ εἶπεν ἕκαστοσ πρὸσ τὸν πλησίον αὐτοῦ. ἀναστήσωμεν τὴν καθαίρεσιν τοῦ λαοῦ ἡμῶν καὶ πολεμήσωμεν περὶ τοῦ λαοῦ ἡμῶν καὶ τῶν ἁγίων. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 3:43)
  • δὲ ἐκ μεγάλων καὶ ὁμαλῶν στασιμώτερον μὲν ἐκείνου καὶ βαρὺ πεπηγὸσ ὑπὸ ὁμαλότητόσ ἐστιν, ὑπὸ δὲ πυρὸσ εἰσιόντοσ καὶ διαλύοντοσ αὐτὸ τὴν ὁμαλότητα ἀποβάλλει, ταύτην δὲ ἀπολέσαν μετίσχει μᾶλλον κινήσεωσ, γενόμενον δὲ εὐκίνητον, ὑπὸ τοῦ πλησίον ἀέροσ ὠθούμενον καὶ κατατεινόμενον ἐπὶ γῆν, τήκεσθαι μὲν τὴν τῶν ὄγκων καθαίρεσιν, ῥοὴν δὲ τὴν κατάτασιν ἐπὶ γῆν ἐπωνυμίαν ἑκατέρου τοῦ πάθουσ ἔλαβεν. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 266:1)
  • ἐν ᾧ δὲ ταῦτ’ ἐγίνετο χρόνῳ, Μάρκοσ Ὁράτιοσ ὁ προαπεσταλμένοσ μετὰ τῶν ἐπιλέκτων ἐπὶ τὴν καθαίρεσιν τῆσ Ἄλβασ ταχέωσ διανύσασ τὴν ὁδὸν καὶ καταλαβὼν πύλασ τε ἀκλείστουσ καὶ τεῖχοσ ἀφύλακτον εὐπετῶσ γίνεται τῆσ πόλεωσ κύριοσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 31 1:1)
  • τὰ πομπεῖ’ ὡσ ἐπεσκεύασεν, καὶ τὴν τῶν στεφάνων καθαίρεσιν, ἢ τὴν τῶν φιαλῶν ποίησιν τὴν καλήν; (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 86:4)
  • τὰ πομπεῖ’ ὡσ ἐπεσκευάκασι, καὶ τὴν τῶν στεφάνων καθαίρεσιν, ἢ τὴν τῶν φιαλῶν ποίησιν τὴν καλήν; (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 247:4)

Synonyms

  1. a pulling down

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

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