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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

  • οὐ προσκυνήσεισ τοῖσ θεοῖσ αὐτῶν, οὐ δὲ μὴ λατρεύσῃσ αὐτοῖσ. οὐ ποιήσεισ κατὰ τὰ ἔργα αὐτῶν, ἀλλὰ καθαιρέσει καθελεῖσ καὶ συντρίβων συντρίψεισ τὰσ στήλασ αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 23:24)
  • 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)
  • τὸ δ’ ὑπ’ ἐμοῦ γεγενημένον οὐ φυγὴ οὐδὲ δευτέρασ ἐπαναστάσεωσ ἐλπίσ, ἀλλὰ παντελὴσ καθαίρεσισ καὶ πανωλεθρία παντὸσ τοῦ γένουσ καὶ ῥιζόθεν τὸ δεινὸν ἅπαν ἐκκεκομμένον. (Lucian, Tyrannicida, (no name) 13:14)
  • ἦν δὲ ἰατρὸσ αὐτῇ συνήθησ Ὄλυμποσ, ᾧ φράσασα τἀληθὲσ ἐχρῆτο συμβούλῳ καὶ συνεργῷ τῆσ καθαιρέσεωσ, ὡσ αὐτὸσ ὁ Ὄλυμποσ εἴρηκεν ἱστορίαν τινὰ τῶν πραγμάτων τούτων ἐκδεδωκώσ. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 82 2:1)
  • 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)

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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