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προσμηχανάομαι

α-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προσμηχανάομαι

Structure: προς (Prefix) + μηχανά (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to be cunningly fastened to or upon
  2. to contrive or procure for oneself

Conjugation

Present tense

Imperfect 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

  • τοῦτο μὲν ἄρα ὑπαρκτέον, θεωροὺσ πολέμου τοὺσ παῖδασ ποιεῖν, προσμηχανᾶσθαι δ’ αὐτοῖσ ἀσφάλειαν, καὶ καλῶσ ἕξει· (Plato, Republic, book 5 429:1)
  • τὸ δὲ μὴ μόνον εἴκειν τῇ φορᾷ τῆσ διανοίασ, ἀλλὰ καὶ προσμηχανᾶσθαί τινα ἔξωθεν, οἱο͂ν μέλαιναν ἐσθῆτα καὶ συμπλοκὰσ χειρῶν καὶ ταπεινὰσ καθέδρασ, ὡσ ὑπὸ τούτων πάντων ἀναγκάζεσθαι τρόπον τινὰ τὴν διάνοιαν μηδέποτε ἀφίστασθαι τῆσ λύπησ, ἀλλ̓ ἀεὶ μνημονεύειν καὶ λυπεῖσθαι, διεγνωκότασ δὴ ἔσεσθαί τινα ἀπαλλαγὴν τούτου καὶ μὴ πάντωσ ἀεὶ φαίνεσθαί τινα αἰτίαν τοῦ πάθουσ, οὐχὶ σφόδρα εὐήθεσ; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. to be cunningly fastened to or upon

  2. to contrive or procure for oneself

Derived

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

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