Sense

1. to cheat by lies, beguile, to be cheated, deceived
2. to cheat, balk, disappoint, of, to be cheated, balked, disappointed, of
3. to be deceived, mistaken in, about, mistaken, deceived in their notions of, deceived in its estimate of
4. to be untrue
5. to represent, as a lie, to falsify, broken
6. to lie, speak false, play false
7. to say that which is untrue, I do, speak falsely
8. to be false, perjured, forsworn
9. to belie, falsify, to break, had broken their word
10. to deceive by lies, cheat, to deceive, in

Examples

• ὁ μὲν ὦν τοιάδε σοφίῃ ἐψεύδετο. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 18:4)
• ποικίλην, ὦ Λυκῖνε, διατριβήν φασι γεγενῆσθαι ὑμῖν χθὲσ ἐν Ἀρισταινέτου παρὰ τὸ δεῖπνον καί τινασ λόγουσ φιλοσόφουσ εἰρῆσθαι καὶ ἔριν οὐ σμικρὰν συστῆναι ἐπ’ αὐτοῖσ, εἰ δὲ μὴ ἐψεύδετο Χαρῖνοσ, καὶ ἄχρι τραυμάτων προχωρῆσαι τὸ πρᾶγμα καὶ τέλοσ αἵματι διαλυθῆναι τὴν συνουσίαν. (Lucian, Symposium, (no name) 1:1)
• Οὐκοῦν ὁ Ἄμμων ἐψεύδετο λέγων ἑαυτοῦ σε εἶναι, σὺ δὲ Φιλίππου ἄρα ἦσθα; (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 2:3)
• αὐτὸσ γὰρ περὶ αὐτοῦ τοὐναντίον ἐψεύδετο καὶ γεγενημένοσ ἐν Οἄσει τῆσ Αἰγύπτου πάντων Αἰγυπτίων πρῶτοσ ὤν, ὡσ ἂν εἴποι τισ, τὴν μὲν ἀληθῆ πατρίδα καὶ τὸ γένοσ ἐξωμόσατο, Ἀλεξανδρεὺσ δὲ εἶναι καταψευδόμενοσ ὁμολογεῖ τὴν μοχθηρίαν τοῦ γένουσ. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 32:1)
• καὶ ἐγώ, ὦ ἄνδρεσ δικασταί, συνειδὼσ ὅτι ἐψεύδετο καὶ ἀναισχυντεῖν ἐπεχείρει, καὶ ὅτι οὐδεὶσ ἦν ἄλλοσ τῷ Κόμωνι γένει ἐγγυτέρω ἐμοῦ, τὸ μὲν πρῶτον ὡσ οἱο͂́ν τε μάλιστα ὠργίσθην καὶ ἠγανάκτησα ἐπὶ τῇ ἀναισχυντίᾳ τοῦ λόγου, ἔπειτα δὲ ἐλογισάμην πρὸσ ἐμαυτὸν ὅτι οὐκ ἐν καιρῷ ὀργιζοίμην, καὶ τούτῳ ἀπεκρινάμην ὅτι ἐν μὲν τῷ παρόντι προσήκει θάπτειν τὸν τετελευτηκότα καὶ τἄλλα ποιεῖν τὰ νομιζόμενα, ἐπειδὰν δὲ τούτων ἁπάντων ἐπιμεληθῶμεν, τόθ’ ἡμῖν αὐτοῖσ διαλεξόμεθα. (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 8:2)

Similar forms

• ψευδῆ (423)
• ψεῦδος (291)
• ψευδεῖς (157)
• ψευδὴς (79)
• ψευδῶς (45)
• ψευδής (40)
• ψεύδους (39)
• ψεῦδός (37)
• ψεύδει (36)
• ψευδοῦς (32)
• ψευδεῖ (28)
• ψευδῶν (25)
• ψευδέσι (17)
• ψευδὲς (15)
• ψεύδεα (14)
• ψεύδη (13)
• ψεύδῃ (8)
• ψευδέων (5)
• ψεύδεά (5)
• ψευδέα (4)
• ψευδές (4)
• ψεύδεσι (4)
• ψεύδοιο (2)
• ψεύδεθ (2)
• ψεύδου (2)
• ψευδέας (2)
• ψεύδοντ (2)
• ψεύδε (2)
• ψεῦδις (1)
• ψεύδεϊ (1)
• ψεύδεσί (1)
• [ψευδῆ] (1)
• ψεύδοιό (1)
• ψευδεῖσ> (1)
• ψεύδετ (1)
• ψεῦδὸς (1)
• ψευδέως (1)
• ψευδο (1)
• ψεύδεσθ (1)

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