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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

  • οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ τότε γε τῶν Λυσιτανῶν καλούντων ἀπῆρεν ἐκ Λιβύησ, καὶ τούτουσ συνέταττεν εὐθὺσ αὐτοκράτωρ στρατηγὸσ, καὶ τὴν ἐγγὺσ Ἰβηρίαν ὑπήκοον ἐποιεῖτο, τῶν πλείστων ἑκουσίωσ προστιθεμένων, μάλιστα μὲν διὰ τὸ πρᾷον αὐτοῦ καὶ δραστήριον, ἔστι δὲ ἃ καὶ σοφιστικῶσ αὐτὸσ εἰσ ἀπάτην καὶ κήλησιν ἐμηχανᾶτο. (Plutarch, Sertorius, chapter 11 1:1)
  • "ὥστε τὴν μὲν εὐφροσύνην μὴ κήλησιν εἶναι, τὸ δὲ μὴ γοητείαν ἀλλὰ τέρψιν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 18:17)
  • οὕτω φύσει αὐτὰ ταῦτα μεγάλην τινὰ κήλησιν ἔχειν. (Plato, Republic, book 10 138:1)

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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