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χειροτονητός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χειροτονητός χειροτονητή χειροτονητόν

Structure: χειροτονητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: xeirotone/w의 분사형

Sense

  1. elected by show of hands, elective

Declension

First/Second 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

  • ἐγὼ δὲ χειροτονητὸσ ὑφ̓ ἁπάντων προκριθεὶσ ἄρχων, ἄριστοσ εἶναι δόξασ ἀνθρώπων ἡγεῖσθαι καὶ πράγμασι χρῆσθαι· (Lucian, 50:1)
  • πρότερον μὲν οὖν οὗτοσ ἦν χειροτονητόσ, καὶ τοὺσ ἐνδοξοτάτουσ καὶ πιστοτάτουσ ἐχειροτόνουν. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 54 3:2)
  • ἔτι δὲ καὶ καθ’ ἡμᾶσ ἱερεὺσ χειροτονητὸσ ἀπεδείκνυτο Τίτου, καὶ θύσαντεσ αὐτῷ τῶν σπονδῶν γενομένων ᾄδουσι παιᾶνα πεποιημένον, οὗ τἆλλα διὰ μῆκοσ ἡμεῖσ παρέντεσ ἀνεγράψαμεν ἃ παυόμενοι τῆσ ᾠδῆσ λέγουσι· (Plutarch, Titus Flamininus, chapter 16 4:1)
  • πρότερον μὲν τοίνυν, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, ἀντιγραφεὺσ ἦν χειροτονητὸσ τῇ πόλει, ὃσ καθ’ ἑκάστην πρυτανείαν ἀπελογίζετο τὰσ προσόδουσ τῷ δήμῳ· (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 25 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. elected by show of hands

Related

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

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