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

• ὁρμὰς (64)
• ὁρμαῖς (56)
• ὁρμᾶν (32)
• ὁρμάς (21)
• ὁρμᾶται (20)
• ὁρμαὶ (16)
• ὁρμᾷ (13)
• ὁρμᾷς (6)
• ὁρμάν (5)
• ὁρ´μα (4)
• ὁρ´μαινε (4)
• ὁρμὰν (3)
• ὁρμᾶτο (3)
• ὁρμαθὸς (3)
• ὁρμαθοῦ (2)
• ὁρμάσθω (2)
• ὁρμᾶσθε (2)
• ὁρμᾶ‧ (1)
• ὁρμᾶτε (1)
• ὁρμαθῷ (1)
• ὁρμάσω (1)
• ὁρμαθόν (1)
• ὁρμᾶσθ (1)
• ὁρμάτω (1)
• ὁρμᾷ· (1)
• ὁρ´μαον (1)
• ὁρμάσαι (1)
• ὁρμά (1)
• ὁρμᾶτ (1)
• ὁρμαί? (1)

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