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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

  • Ἡδονὴ δέ ἐστιν ἄλογοσ ἔπαρσισ ἐφ’ αἱρετῷ δοκοῦντι ὑπάρχειν, ὑφ’ ἣν τάττεται κήλησισ, ἐπιχαιρεκακία, τέρψισ, διάχυσισ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. a'. ZHNWN 114:4)
  • κήλησισ μὲν οὖν ἐστιν ἡδονὴ δι’ ὤτων κατακηλοῦσα· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. a'. ZHNWN 114:5)
  • ἡδονῆσ δὲ τῆ μὲν δι’ ὤτων ὄνομα κήλησίσ ἐστι τῇ δὲ δι’ ὀμμάτων γοητεία· (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 3 22:1)
  • ἡ μὲν γὰρ τῶν ἐπῳδῶν ἔχεών τε καὶ φαλαγγίων καὶ σκορπίων καὶ τῶν ἄλλων θηρίων τε καὶ νόσων κήλησίσ ἐστιν, ἡ δὲ δικαστῶν τε καὶ ἐκκλησιαστῶν καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ὄχλων κήλησίσ τε καὶ παραμυθία τυγχάνει οὖσα· (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 209:1)

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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