Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • ἢν δέ τισ ἢ φροίμιον εἴπῃ πρὸ τοῦ λόγου, ὡσ εὐνουστέρουσ ἀπεργάσαιτο αὐτούσ, ἢ οἶκτον ἢ δείνωσιν ἔξωθεν ἐπάγῃ ^ τῷ πράγματι ‐ οἱᾶ πολλὰ ῥητόρων παῖδεσ ἐπὶ τοὺσ δικαστὰσ μηχανῶνται ‐ παρελθὼν ὁ κῆρυξ κατεσιώπησεν εὐθύσ, οὐκ ἐῶν ληρεῖν πρὸσ τὴν βουλὴν καὶ περιπέττειν τὸ πρᾶγμα ἐν τοῖσ λόγοισ, ὡσ γυμνὰ τὰ γεγενημένα οἱ Ἀρεοπαγῖται βλέποιεν. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 19:4)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἀληθείασ μέλει αὐτοῖσ, οἶμαι, ἀλλὰ τοῦ κηλεῖν τοὺσ ἀκούοντασ, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο μέτροισ τε κατᾴδουσι καὶ μύθοισ κατηχοῦσι καὶ ὅλωσ ἅπαντα ὑπὲρ τοῦ τερπνοῦ μηχανῶνται. (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 39:7)
  • καὶ γραμματεῖά τε εἰσεφοίτα παρὰ τῆσ γυναικὸσ αὐτῷ καὶ στέφανοι ἡμιμάραντοι καὶ μῆλά τινα ἀποδεδηγμένα καὶ ἄλλα ὁπόσα αἱ μαστροποὶ ἐπὶ τοῖσ νέοισ μηχανῶνται,^ κατὰ μικρὸν αὐτοῖσ ἐπιτεχνώμεναι τοὺσ ἔρωτασ καὶ ἀναφλέγουσαι τὸ πρῶτον ἐρᾶσθαι νομίζοντασ ἐπαγωγότατον γὰρ τοῦτό γε, καὶ μάλιστα τοῖσ καλοῖσ εἶναι οἰομένοισ, ἄχρι· (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 13:2)
  • οὐκ οἶδα δ’ ὅντινα τρόπον, ἡμῶν τὰσ γυναῖκασ ὅσαι φίλτρα μηχανῶνται καὶ γοητείασ ἐπὶ τοὺσ ἄνδρασ βδελυττομένων καὶ δυσχεραινόντων, μισθωτοῖσ τε καὶ δούλοισ προσεφιᾶσι τὰ σιτία καὶ τὰ ὄψα μονονοὺ μαγγανεύειν καὶ φαρμάττειν. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 7 16:1)
  • καὶ τῶν τριχῶν τὰ καθήκοντα πρὸσ τὸ ἄγκιστρον ὡσ ἔνι μάλιστα λευκὰ φαίνεσθαι μηχανῶνται μᾶλλον γὰρ οὕτωσ ἐν τῇ θαλάττῃ δι’ ὁμοιότητα τῆσ χρόασ λανθάνουσι. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 24 7:2)

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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