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πεπλασμένως

Adverb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πεπλασμένως

Etym.: from pe/plasmai, perf. pass. of pla/ssw.

Sense

  1. artificially, by pretence

Examples

  • διὸ δεῖ λανθάνειν ποιοῦντασ, καὶ μὴ δοκεῖν λέγειν πεπλασμένωσ ἀλλὰ πεφυκότωσ τοῦτο γὰρ πιθανόν, ἐκεῖνο δὲ τοὐναντίον· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 2 4:1)
  • αἱ δὲ πεπλασμένωσ, φθονερῶσ δὲ ἄλλαι ἐκκυνοῦσι παρὰ τὸ ἴχνοσ διὰ τέλουσ συμπεριφερόμεναι. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 3 12:3)
  • αὐτὸσ δὲ πεπλασμένωσ ἔλεγεν· (Diodorus Siculus, Library, fragmenta libri ix, chapter 30 3:3)

Synonyms

  1. artificially

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

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