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προφασίζομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προφασίζομαι προφασιοῦμαι προὐφασισάμην

Structure: προ (Prefix) + φασίζ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: from pro/fasis

Sense

  1. to set up as a pretext or excuse, allege by way of excuse, plead in excuse, to allege as an excuse that . ., to make excuses, to be used as a pretext
  2. to allege, that

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

Aorist tense

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 ἐγένετο ὡσ ἀνέγνω βασιλεὺσ Ἰσραὴλ τὸ βιβλίον, διέρρηξε τὰ ἱμάτια αὐτοῦ καὶ εἶπεν. ὁ Θεὸσ ἐγὼ τοῦ θανατῶσαι καὶ ζωοποιῆσαι, ὅτι οὖτοσ ἀποστέλλει πρόσ με ἀποσυνάξαι ἄνδρα ἀπὸ τῆσ λέπρασ αὐτοῦ̣ ὅτι πλὴν γνῶτε δὴ καὶ ἴδετε ὅτι προφασίζεται οὗτόσ μοι. (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 5:7)
  • μὴ ἐκκλίνῃσ τὴν καρδίαν μου εἰσ λόγουσ πονηρίασ τοῦ προφασίζεσθαι προφάσεισ ἐν ἁμαρτίαισ σὺν ἀνθρώποισ ἐργαζομένοισ τὴν ἀνομίαν, καὶ οὐ μὴ συνδυάσω μετὰ τῶν ἐκλεκτῶν αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 140:4)
  • προφασίζεται καὶ λέγει ὀκνηρόσ. λέων ἐν ταῖσ ὁδοῖσ, ἐν δὲ ταῖσ πλατείαισ φονευταί. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 22:14)
  • ὡσ δὲ προσιόντα ᾔσθοντο τὸν Λαμπρίαν καὶ ἐκορέσθησάν ποτε φιλοῦντεσ ἀλλήλουσ, ἐγὼ μὲν ὅμωσ παῤ αὐτὸν κατεκλίθην, ὡσ μὴ καὶ τοῦτο προφασίζοιτο ὕστερον, ἡ Θαῒσ δὲ ἀναστᾶσα ὠρχήσατο πρώτη ἀπογυμνοῦσα ἐπὶ πολὺ τὰ σφυρὰ ὡσ μόνη καλὰ ἔχουσα, καὶ ἐπειδὴ ἐπαύσατο, ὁ Λαμπρίασ μὲν ἐσίγα καὶ εἶπεν οὐδέν, Δίφιλοσ δὲ ὑπερεπῄνει τὸ εὔρυθμον καὶ τὸ κεχορηγημένον, καὶ ὅτι εὖ πρὸσ τὴν κιθάραν ὁ ποὺσ καὶ τὸ σφυρὸν ὡσ καλὸν καὶ ἄλλα μυρία, καθάπερ τὴν Καλάμιδοσ Σωσάνδραν ἐπαινῶν, ἀλλ̓ οὐχὶ Θαΐδα, ἣν καὶ σὺ οἶσθα συλλουομένην ἡμῖν οἱά ἐστί, Θαῒσ δὲ οἱᾶ καὶ ἔσκωψεν εὐθὺσ ἐσ ἐμέ· (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 2:4)
  • προφασίζει· (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Episode 1:8)
  • οὐδὲ τὸν αὐλητὴν προφασίζομαι· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-1389524)
  • κἀγὼ δέ, εἰ μὲν ὑμεῖσ ἐθέλετε ἐξορμᾶν ἐπὶ ταῦτα, ἕπεσθαι ὑμῖν βούλομαι, εἰ δ’ ὑμεῖσ τάττετ’ ἐμὲ ἡγεῖσθαι, οὐδὲν προφασίζομαι τὴν ἡλικίαν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀκμάζειν ἡγοῦμαι ἐρύκειν ἀπ’ ἐμαυτοῦ τὰ κακά. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 1 28:1)

Synonyms

  1. to set up as a pretext or excuse

  2. to allege

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

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