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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

  • πρῶτον αὐτῷ τὰ βαρβαρικὰ τῶν προσοίκων διετάραξεν, Ἰλλυρικοὺσ καὶ Τριβαλλικοὺσ μηχανωμένη πολέμουσ. (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 11 10:1)
  • πρῶτον αὐτῷ τὰ βαρβαρικὰ τῶν προσοίκων διετάραξεν, Ἰλλυρικοὺσ καὶ Τριβαλλικοὺσ μηχανωμένη πολέμουσ. (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 11 3:3)
  • πολλῶν πατησμὸν δ’ εἱμάτων ἂν ηὐξάμην, δόμοισι προυνεχθέντοσ ἐν χρηστηρίοισ, ψυχῆσ κόμιστρα τῆσδε μηχανωμένῃ. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode, anapests 12:6)
  • ἥτισ οὐδὲ τὴν τῶν ἡδέων ἐπιθυμίαν ἀναμένεισ, ἀλλὰ πρὶν ἐπιθυμῆσαι πάντων ἐμπίμπλασαι, πρὶν μὲν πεινῆν ἐσθίουσα, πρὶν δὲ διψῆν πίνουσα, ἵνα μὲν ἡδέωσ φάγῃσ, ὀψοποιοὺσ μηχανωμένη, ἵνα δὲ ἡδέωσ πίῃσ, οἴνουσ τε πολυτελεῖσ παρασκευάζῃ καὶ τοῦ θέρουσ χιόνα περιθέουσα ζητεῖσ, ἵνα δὲ καθυπνώσῃσ ἡδέωσ, οὐ μόνον τὰσ στρωμνὰσ μαλακάσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰσ κλίνασ καὶ τὰ ὑπόβαθρα ταῖσ κλίναισ παρασκευάζῃ· (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 1 31:4)
  • τὰ δ’ ἀφροδίσια πρὸ τοῦ δεῖσθαι ἀναγκάζεισ, πάντα μηχανωμένη καὶ γυναιξὶ τοῖσ ἀνδράσι χρωμένη· (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 1 31:6)

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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