Sense

1. to set in motion, urge, push on, spur on, cheer on, inspired
2. to stir up, was inflicted
3. to make a start, hasten on
4. starts, started, to begin
5. to rush headlong at, to hasten
6. to start, begin, that had got, start
7. that they put, themselves in motion, think, began, he purposed, eagerly
8. to hasten after
9. to start from, begin from, going out from thence, to make a place his headquarters, base of operations, setting out, beginning
10. to rush on, to hasten, be eager, to go forth, goes, forth
11. incited

Examples

• πραότητοσ δ’ ἐστὶ τὸ δύνασθαι φέρειν μετρίωσ ἐγκλήματα καὶ ὀλιγωρίασ, καὶ τὸ μὴ ταχέωσ ὁρμᾶν ἐπὶ τὰσ τιμωρίασ, καὶ τὸ μὴ εὐκίνητον εἶναι πρὸσ τὰσ ὀργάσ, ἄπικρον δὲ τῷ ἤθει καὶ ἀφιλόνεικον, ἔχοντα τὸ ἠρεμαῖον ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ καὶ στάσιμον. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 15:3)
• καὶ ὁρμᾶται μὲν ἀπὸ λίμνησ τῆσ Μαιώτιδοσ, ἐσβάλλει δὲ ἐσ θάλασσαν τὴν τοῦ Εὐξείνου Πόντου. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 19 2:2)
• ἦ θεὸσ αὐτὸν ὁρμᾷ, δίκασ ἀδίκοισιν ὄφρα μήσεται· (Bacchylides, , dithyrambs, ode 18 3:5)
• ὁρμᾶσθαι χρεὼν πάντ’ ἄνδρ’ ὁπλίτην ἁρμάτων τ’ ἐπεμβάτην, μοναμπύκων τε φάλαρα κινεῖσθαι στόμα ἀφρῷ καταστάζοντα Καδμείαν χθόνα. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 5:35)
• ἀλλ’ οὐ φθάνειν χρὴ συσκιάζοντασ γένυν καὶ χαλκοπληθῆ Δαναϊδῶν ὁρμᾶν στρατὸν ἑπτάστολον πύργωμα Καδμείων ἔπι· (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 1:11)

Similar forms

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• ὁρμᾶν (32)
• ὁρμάς (21)
• ὁρμᾶται (20)
• ὁρμαὶ (16)
• ὁρμᾷ (13)
• ὁρμᾷς (6)
• ὁρμάν (5)
• ὁρ́μα (4)
• ὁρ́μαινε (4)
• ὁρμᾶτο (3)
• ὁρμαθὸς (3)
• ὁρμὰν (3)
• ὁρμᾶσθε (2)
• ὁρμαθοῦ (2)
• ὁρμάσθω (2)
• ὁρμᾷ· (1)
• ὁρ́μαον (1)
• ὁρμάσαι (1)
• ὁρμά (1)
• ὁρμᾶτ (1)
• ὁρμαί (1)
• ὁρμᾶ‧ (1)
• ὁρμᾶτε (1)
• ὁρμαθῷ (1)
• ὁρμάσω (1)
• ὁρμαθόν (1)
• ὁρμᾶσθ (1)
• ὁρμάτω (1)

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