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ὀργιαστικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀργιαστικός ὀργιαστική ὀργιαστικόν

Structure: ὀργιαστικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from o)rgia/zw

Sense

  1. fit for orgies, exciting

Declension

First/Second declension

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

  • ἔτι δὲ οὐκ ἔστιν ὁ αὐλὸσ ἠθικὸν ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον ὀργιαστικόν, ὥστε πρὸσ τοὺσ τοιούτουσ αὐτῷ καιροὺσ χρηστέον ἐν οἷσ ἡ θεωρία κάθαρσιν μᾶλλον δύναται ἢ μάθησιν. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 8 96:1)
  • ἄμφω γὰρ ὀργιαστικὰ καὶ παθητικά· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 8 121:2)
  • οἱ μὲν οὖν Ἕλληνεσ οἱ πλεῖστοι τῷ Διονύσῳ προσέθεσαν καὶ τῷ Ἀπόλλωνι καὶ τῇ Ἑκάτῃ καὶ ταῖσ Μούσαισ καὶ Δήμητρι, νὴ Δία, τὸ ὀργιαστικὸν πᾶν καὶ τὸ βακχικὸν καὶ τὸ χορικὸν καὶ τὸ περὶ τὰσ τελετὰσ μυστικόν, Ιἄκχόν τε καὶ τὸν Διόνυσον καλοῦσι καὶ τὸν ἀρχηγέτην τῶν μυστηρίων, τῆσ Δήμητροσ δαίμονα· (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 3 18:4)

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

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