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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

  • εὖ οὖν ποιήσεισ διαπεμψάμενοσ πρὸσ αὐτοὺσ καὶ δοὺσ δεξιάσ, ὅπωσ εἰδότεσ τὴν ἡμετέραν προαίρεσιν εὔθυμοί τε ὦσι καὶ ἡδέωσ διαγίνωνται πρὸσ τὴν τῶν ἰδίων ἀντίληψιν». (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 11:26)
  • πρὸσ ἅπερ ἀνδρείωσ μάλα στεφανωσάμενοσ καὶ καθαρὸν ἱμάτιον ἀναλαβὼν καὶ παρελθὼν εἰσ τὴν ἐκκλησίαν τὰ μὲν ἐμμελῶσ, τὰ δὲ καὶ τραχύτερον ἢ κατὰ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ προαίρεσιν ἀπελογήσατο· (Lucian, (no name) 11:3)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ ἐσ τὴν Ὀλυμπίαν ἀφικόμεθα, μεστὸσ ἦν ὁ ὀπισθόδομοσ τῶν κατηγορούντων Πρωτέωσ ἢ ἐπαινούντων τὴν προαίρεσιν αὐτοῦ, ὥστε καὶ εἰσ χεῖρασ αὐτῶν ἦλθον οἱ πολλοί, ἄχρι δὴ παρελθὼν αὐτὸσ ὁ Πρωτεὺσ μυρίῳ τῷ πλήθει παραπεμπόμενοσ κατόπιν τοῦ τῶν κηρύκων ἀγῶνοσ λόγουσ τινὰσ διεξῆλθεν περὶ ἑαυτοῦ, τὸν βίον τε ὡσ ἐβίω καὶ τοὺσ κινδύνουσ οὓσ ἐκινδύνευσεν διηγούμενοσ καὶ ὅσα πράγματα φιλοσοφίασ ἕνεκα ὑπέμεινεν. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 12:2)
  • καὶ μίαν ταύτην προαίρεσιν ἐπεποίητο ἐκείνουσ ἐπισκώπτειν καὶ τὴν Διονυσιακὴν ἐλευθερίαν καταχεῖν αὐτῶν, ἄρτι μὲν ἀεροβατοῦντασ δεικνύουσα καὶ νεφέλαισ ξυνόντασ, ἄρτι δὲ ψυλλῶν πηδήματα διαμετροῦντασ, ὡσ δῆθεν τὰ ἀέρια λεπτολογουμένουσ. (Lucian, Prometheus es in verbis 16:1)
  • ἐπιθυμῶν δὲ δόξησ καὶ τοῦ πρωτεῦσαι παρὰ τοῖσ Ἕλλησιν ἐπὶ σοφίᾳ, καθάπερ αὐτὸσ εἴρηκεν, ἐπὶ τὸ γράφειν ἃ διανοηθείη κατέφυγεν, οὐ περὶ μικρῶν τὴν προαίρεσιν ποιούμενοσ οὐδὲ περὶ τῶν ἰδίων συμβολαίων οὐδὲ ὑπὲρ ὧν ἄλλοι τινὲσ τῶν τότε σοφιστῶν, περὶ δὲ τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν καὶ βασιλικῶν καὶ πολιτικῶν πραγμάτων, ἐξ ὧν ὑπελάμβανε τάσ τε πόλεισ ἄμεινον οἰκήσεσθαι καὶ τοὺσ ἰδιώτασ ἐπίδοσιν ἕξειν πρὸσ ἀρετὴν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 1 1:1)
  • ὑποτίθεται δὲ ἑκάτεροσ ἰδιώτην ἄνδρα καὶ ἀπράγμονα καὶ νέον παρὰ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ προαίρεσίν τε καὶ φύσιν ἠναγκασμένον ἐν δικαστηρίῳ λέγειν, ὁ μὲν Λυσίασ ἐν τῷ πρὸσ Ἀρχεβιάδην λόγῳ τὸν τρόπον τοῦτον· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 101)

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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