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

  • ἤδη δὲ ἄρχεσθαι δέον, μηχανᾶται τοιόνδε τι· (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 13:1)
  • ὦ Φοῖβ’ Ἄπολλον Πύθι’ ἐπ’ ἀγαθῇ τύχῃ τὸ πρᾶγμ’ ὃ μηχανᾶται ἔμπροσθεν οὗτοσ τῶν θυρῶν, ἅπασιν ἡμῖν ἁρμόσαι παυσαμένοισ πλάνων. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Lyric-Scene, strophe2)
  • ὁ δὲ οὐδέν με τοῦ καταμένειν προσιέμενον ὁρῶν, μηχανὴν τοῦ μεῖναι τὸν τότε ἔκπλουν μηχανᾶται τοιάνδε τινά. (Plato, Epistles, Letter 7 147:2)
  • οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ τοῖσ ὑπ’ εὐνοίασ καὶ φιλίασ πρὸσ τὸν θεὸν ἄγαν ἐμπαθῶσ ἔχουσι, καὶ μηδὲν ἀθετεῖν μηδ’ ἀναίνεσθαι τῶν τοιούτων δυναμένοισ, μέγα πρὸσ πίστιν ἐστὶ τὸ θαυμάσιον καὶ μὴ καθ’ ἡμᾶσ τῆσ τοῦ θεοῦ δυνάμεωσ, οὐδὲν γὰρ οὐδαμῶσ ἀνθρωπίνῳ προσέοικεν οὔτε φύσιν οὔτε κίνησιν οὔτε τέχνην οὔτ’ ἰσχύν, οὐδ’ εἴ τι ποιεῖ τῶν ἡμῖν ἀποιήτων καὶ μηχανᾶται τῶν ἀμηχάνων, παράλογόν ἐστιν, ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον ἐν πᾶσι διαφέρων πολύ μάλιστα τοῖσ ἔργοισ ἀνόμοιόσ ἐστι καὶ παρηλλαγμένοσ. (Plutarch, Lives, chapter 38 3:2)
  • γνοὺσ δ’ οὗτοσ ὅτι πάντ’ ἐξελεγχθήσεται καὶ κάκιστοσ ἀνθρώπων περὶ ἡμᾶσ γεγονὼσ ἐπιδειχθήσεται, μηχανᾶται καὶ κατασκευάζει ταῦτα, ἐφ’ οἷσ Στέφανοσ οὑτοσὶ τὰ ψευδῆ μου κατεμαρτύρησε. (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 7:2)
  • ἀλλὰ καὶ μηχανᾶταί τι ὁ τρισκατάρατοσ οὐκ ἄσοφον οὐδὲ τοῦ προστυχόντοσ λῃστοῦ ἄξιον. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 32:1)

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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