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κήλησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κήλησις κήλησεως

Structure: κηλησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: khle/w

Sense

  1. an enchanting, fascination

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 συναρμοσθέντοσ, εἰκὸσ μέν ἐστι μηδὲ Πυθαγόρανἀγνοῆσαι, τεκμαιρομένοισ τῇ περὶ μουσικὴν απουδῇ τοῦ ἀνδρόσ, ἣν ἐπηγάγετο τῇ ψυχῇ κηλήσεωσ ἕνεκα καὶ παραμυθίασ, ὡσ οὐ πᾶν ἐχούσῃ διδασκαλίᾳ καὶ μαθήμασιν ὑπήκοον οὐδὲ λόγῳ μεταβλητὸν ἐκ κακίασ, ἀλλά τινοσ ἑτέρασ πειθοῦσ συνεργοῦ καὶ πλάσεωσ καὶ τιθασεύσεωσ δεόμενον, εἰ μὴ παντάπασι μέλλοι φιλοσοφίᾳ δυσμεταχείριστον εἶναι καὶ ἀπειθέσ. (Plutarch, De virtute morali, section 3 3:1)
  • πηκτίδων ἐπιτερπέστερα φθεγγομένουσ οὐ γὰρ αὐλητρίδα, παρόντων ἐκείνων, ἐκπεσεῖν θαυμαστὸν ἦν, ἀλλ’ εἰ μὴ καὶ πότου καὶ σίτου λήθη κατελάμβανεν ὑφ’ ἡδονῆσ καὶ κηλήσεωσ τὸ συμπόσιον. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 7, 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. an enchanting

Related

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

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