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κωλυτικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κωλυτικός κωλυτική κωλυτικόν

Structure: κωλυτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from kwlu/w

Sense

  1. preventive

Examples

  • εἰ ἄρα τῶν σωφροσύνησ κωλυτικῶν παθῶν ὁ λογισμὸσ φαίνεται ἐπικρατεῖν, γαστριμαργίασ τε καὶ ἐπιθυμίασ, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 1:3)
  • ὁ γὰρ λογισμὸσ τῶν μὲν ἀρετῶν ἐστιν ἡγεμών, τῶν δέ παθῶν αὐτοκράτωρ. ̀ρ̀ν̀ρ̀ν̀ρ̀ν̀ρ̀ν Ἐπιθεωρεῖτε τοίνυν πρῶτον διὰ τῶν κωλυτικῶν τῆσ σωφροσύνησ ἔργων, ὅτι αὐτοδέσποτόσ ἐστι τῶν παθῶν ὁ λογισμόσ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 1:29)
  • καίτοι ὅτε μὴ ἐπιθυμεῖν ἡμᾶσ εἴρηκεν ὁ νόμοσ, πολὺ πλέον πείσαιμ’ ἂν ὑμᾶσ ὅτι τῶν ἐπιθυμιῶν κρατεῖν δύναται ὁ λογισμόσ. ‐ Ὥσπερ καὶ τῶν κωλυτικῶν τῆσ δικαιοσύνησ παθῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 2:6)

Synonyms

  1. preventive

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

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