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μηχανάομαι

α-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μηχανάομαι

Structure: μηχανά (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: mhxanh/

Sense

  1. to prepare, make ready
  2. to contrive, devise, to cause, effect, to form designs, to contrive to, that
  3. to procure for oneself
  4. contriving

Conjugation

Present tense

Imperfect tense

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

  • πολλὰ γὰρ πρὸ τούτου γενέσθαι δεῖ, καὶ προοδοποιῆσαι τῇ πόσει καὶ προπαρασκευάσαι ῥᾴδιον ἐσ ἰάσιν τὸ σῶμα καὶ τῆσ ἁπάσησ ἕξεωσ φροντίσαι κενοῦντα καὶ ἰσχναίνοντα καὶ οἷσ χρὴ τρέφοντα καὶ κινοῦντα ἐσ ὅσον χρήσιμον καὶ ὕπνουσ ἐπινοοῦντα καὶ ἠρεμίασ μηχανώμενον, ἅπερ οἱ μὲν ἄλλο τι νοσοῦντεσ ῥᾳδίωσ πεισθεῖεν ἄν, οἱ μεμηνότεσ δὲ διὰ τὴν ἐλευθερίαν τοῦ νοῦ δυσάγωγοι καὶ δυσηνιόχητοι καὶ τῷ ἰατρῷ ἐπισφαλεῖσ καὶ τῇ θεραπείᾳ δυσκαταγώνιστοι. (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 17:2)
  • μηχανώμενον ἐν αὐτοῖσ καὶ παρασκευαζόμενον ὁρμητήρια καὶ καταφυγὰσ καὶ θήρατρα πάλιν αὖ τοῖσ ἁλωσομένοισ καὶ ἀποδράσεισ τῶν ἐπιτιθεμένων; (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 3 17:1)

Synonyms

  1. to prepare

  2. to contrive

  3. to procure for oneself

  4. contriving

Derived

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

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