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καταχειροτονία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: καταχειροτονία

Structure: καταχειροτονι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from kataxeirotone/w

Sense

  1. a vote of condemnation

Examples

  • ἔτι δὲ τὰσ εἰσαγγελίασ εἰσαγγέλλουσιν εἰσ τὸν δῆμον, καὶ τὰσ καταχειροτονίασ καὶ τὰσ προβολὰσ ἁπάσασ εἰσάγουσιν οὗτοι, καὶ γραφὰσ παρανόμων, καὶ νόμον μὴ ἐπιτήδειον θεῖναι, καὶ προεδρικὴν καὶ ἐπιστατικὴν καὶ στρατηγοῖσ εὐθύνασ. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 59 2:1)
  • καὶ ταῦτα πάντα ποιεῖ δῆλον ὅτι οὐδὲν ἄλλ’ ἐνδεικνύμενοσ ἢ ὅτι ἐγὼ οὐδὲν πέπονθ’ ὑπὸ τῆσ καταχειροτονίασ, οὐδὲ δέδοικ’ οὐδὲ φοβοῦμαι τὸν μέλλοντ’ ἀγῶνα. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 258:5)

Synonyms

  1. a vote of condemnation

Related

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

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