A.selection by lot, “δικαστῶν” D.C.39.7; choice by lot or chance, unreasoning choice, Plu.2.1045f: hence, absurdity, absence of reason, in the phrase τίς ἡ ἀ. τοῦ . .; what is there unreasonable in . ., A.D.Synt.267.17, cf. Alex.Aphr. de An.22.25, S.E.M.8.351, Dam.Pr.34, al.; “κατ᾽ ἀποκλήρωσιν” without reason, at random, fortuitously, Gal.1.135,al.
ἀποκλήρ-ωσις , εως, ἡ,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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