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

  • γ πολλοὶ τῇ πλείστῃ τῶν εὐεργετούντων χρηστότητι πυκνότερον τιμώμενοι μεῖζον ἐφρόνησαν καὶ οὐ μόνον τοὺσ ὑποτεταγμένουσ ἡμῖν ζητοῦσι κακοποιεῖν, τόν τε κόρον οὐ δυνάμενοι φέρειν καὶ τοῖσ ἑαυτῶν εὐεργέταισ ἐπιχειροῦσιν μηχανᾶσθαι. (Septuagint, Liber Esther 8:15)
  • καὶ οὐχ οὕτωσ εἰσ ὕπνον κατεχρήσαντο τὸν χρόνον τῆσ νυκτόσ, ὡσ εἰσ τὸ παντοίουσ μηχανᾶσθαι τοῖσ ταλαιπώροισ δοκοῦσιν ἐμπαιγμούσ.— (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 5:22)
  • 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)
  • ἤδη δὲ ἄρχεσθαι δέον, μηχανᾶται τοιόνδε τι· (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 13:1)
  • τοῦτον δ’ ὃν ἵζειν φὴσ σὺ κλωπικὰσ ἕδρασ καὶ μηχανᾶσθαι, ζῶντα συλλαβὼν ἐγὼ πυλῶν ἐπ’ ἐξόδοισιν ἀμπείρασ ῥάχιν στήσω πετεινοῖσ γυψὶ θοινατήριον. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, iambic 2:16)

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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