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ὑβριστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑβριστής ὑβριστοῦ

Structure: ὑβριστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: u(bri/zw

Sense

  1. a violent, overbearing person, a wanton, insolent man
  2. lustful, lewd
  3. wanton, restive, unruly

Declension

First 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

  • ὀφθαλμὸσ ὑβριστοῦ, γλῶσσα ἄδικοσ, χεῖρεσ ἐκχέουσαι αἷμα δικαίου (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 6:21)
  • μὴ ἐξαναστῇσ ἀπὸ προσώπου ὑβριστοῦ, ἵνα μὴ ἐγκαθίσῃ ὡσ ἔνεδρον τῷ στόματί σου. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 8:11)
  • "κἂν περὶ ὑβριστοῦ τινοσ ἢ μοιχοῦ λέγῃσ Ἀθήνησι, τὰ ἐν Ἰνδοῖσ καὶ Ἐκβατάνοισ λεγέσθω. (Lucian, Rhetorum praeceptor, (no name) 13:31)
  • ὁρίζομαι δ’ εἶναι τὸ μὲν ἐρᾶν τῶν καλῶν καὶ σωφρόνων φιλανθρώπου πάθοσ καὶ εὐγνώμονοσ ψυχῆσ, τὸ δὲ ἀσελγαίνειν ἀργυρίου τινὰ μισθούμενον ὑβριστοῦ καὶ ἀπαιδεύτου ἀνδρὸσ ἔργον· (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 1371)
  • τοιαῦτα καὶ ὀνόματα καὶ ῥήματα ἔξωθεν περιαμπέχονται, σατύρου δή τινα ὑβριστοῦ δοράν. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 525:2)

Synonyms

  1. lustful

Related

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

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