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προαίρεσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προαίρεσις προαίρεσεως

Structure: προαιρεσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: proaire/omai

Sense

  1. a choosing, before, an act of deliberate choice, a purpose, resolution, on purpose, as one will
  2. a purpose, plan, scope, a course of life, principle
  3. a deliberate course of action, a policy, a mode, principles, your general policy
  4. a department of government
  5. a political party

Declension

Third 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

  • καὶ εἶπε Κύριοσ πρόσ με. ψευδῆ οἱ προφῆται προφητεύουσιν ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματί μου, οὐκ ἀπέστειλα αὐτοὺσ καὶ οὐκ ἐνετειλάμην αὐτοῖσ καὶ οὐκ ἐλάλησα πρὸσ αὐτούσ. ὅτι ὁράσεισ ψευδεῖσ καὶ μαντείασ καὶ οἰωνίσματα καὶ προαιρέσεισ καρδίασ αὐτῶν αὐτοὶ προφητεύουσιν ὑμῖν. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 14:14)
  • ἔστι δὲ ἥδε, τίνεσ εἰσὶν ἀξιολογώτατοι τῶν ἀρχαίων ῥητόρων τε καὶ συγγραφέων καὶ τίνεσ αὐτῶν ἐγένοντο προαιρέσεισ τοῦ τε βίου καὶ τῶν λόγων καὶ τί παρ’ ἑκάστου δεῖ λαμβάνειν ἢ φυλάττεσθαι, καλὰ θεωρήματα καὶ ἀναγκαῖα τοῖσ ἀσκοῦσι τὴν πολιτικὴν φιλοσοφίαν καὶ οὐ δήπου μὰ Δία κοινὰ οὐδὲ κατημαξευμένα τοῖσ πρότερον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De antiquis oratoribus, chapter 42)
  • οὐ μὴν ἀνίπτοισ γε ποσίν, τὸ τοῦ λόγου, πρὸσ ταῦτα ᾖξεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ποιηταῖσ σύντροφοσ ἐγένετο καὶ τῶν πλείστων ἐμέμνητο καὶ λέγειν ἤσκητο καὶ τὰσ ἐν φιλοσοφίᾳ προαιρέσεισ οὐκ ἐπ’ ὀλίγον οὐδὲ κατὰ τὴν παροιμίαν ἄκρῳ τῷ δακτύλῳ ἁψάμενοσ ἠπίστατο, καὶ τὸ σῶμα δὲ ἐγεγύμναστο καὶ πρὸσ καρτερίαν διεπεπόνητο, καὶ τὸ ὅλον ἐμεμελήκει αὐτῷ μηδενὸσ ἄλλου προσδεᾶ εἶναι· (Lucian, (no name) 4:1)
  • Ξενοφῶν δὲ καὶ Φίλιστοσ οἱ τούτοισ ἐπακμάσαντεσ οὔτε φύσεισ ὁμοίασ εἶχον οὔτε προαιρέσεισ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 4 1:1)
  • ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ τοῖσ μεγέθεσι τῶν ἀνδρῶν συνεξισῶν τοὺσ λόγουσ, ἀλλὰ ψοφοδεεῖσ καὶ τοὺσ κρατίστουσ δημηγοροῦντασ καταλείπων τὰσ δυνάμεισ καὶ τὰσ προαιρέσεισ ὁμοίουσ ἅπαντασ ποιεῖ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 5 6:3)

Synonyms

  1. a department of government

  2. a political party

Related

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

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