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ψαῦσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ψαῦσις ψαῦσεως

Structure: ψαυσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a touching

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

  • ἀνάγκη γάρ, εἰσ ἄλληλα χωρούντων τῷ κεράννυσθαι, μὴ θάτερον μὲν περιέχειν περιέχεσθαι δὲ θάτερον, καὶ τὸ μὲν δέχεσθαι τὸ δ’ ἐνυπάρχειν οὕτω γὰρ οὐ κρᾶσισ ἁφὴ δὲ καὶ ψαῦσισ ἔσται τῶν ἐπιφανειῶν, τῆσ μὲν ἐντὸσ ὑποδυομένησ τῆσ δ’ ἐκτὸσ περιεχούσησ, τῶν δ’ ἄλλων μερῶν ἀμίκτων καὶ καθαρῶν ἐνδιαφερομένων· (Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos, section 37 10:3)
  • παχύνει γὰρ καὶ ὑγραίνει τὸ πνεῦμα ξηρόν τε καὶ λεπτὸν ἐὸν, και ὀμίχλην τῇσι αἰσθήσεσι παρέχει· βαρὺ δὲ καὶ νωθὲσ ὀμίχλη, ἥπερ ὕπνου ἀρχή· ἢν δὲ μεζόνων δέωνται, καὶ αὐτὸ τὸ μηκώνειον ἐσ τὰ μέτωπα ξὺν ὕδατι χρίειν· ἠδὲ ὑπαλείφειν τὰσ Ῥῖνασ καὶ ἐσ τὰ ὦτα ἐγχέειν · ψηλαφίη ποδῶν εὐαφὴσ ξὺν λίπαϊ, ψαῦσισ τῆσ κεφαλῆσ, ἀνυτικὸν δὲ καὶ κνῆσισ μάλιστα κροτάφων τε καὶ ὤτων. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 52)

Synonyms

  1. a touching

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

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