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ἐν-στα^τικός , ή, όν,
A.setting oneself in the way, stubborn, savage, of beasts, Arist.HA488b13.
II. opposing, checking, Plu.2.975a; ἐ. ταύτης τῆς ὁδοῦ hindering from this course, M.Ant.5.20. Adv. -κῶς, gloss on διασταδόν, Sch.Opp.H.1.502.
III. able to find objections, Arist.Top.164b3, Cael.294b11; controversial, “ἐνέργεια” Procl.in Prm.p.502S.; addicted to controversy, Id.in Alc.p.23C.; οἱ ἐνστατικοί Grammarians who started difficulties in Homer, opp. λυτικοί or ἐπιλυτικοί, Eust.1166 fin.: -κόν, τό, Hermog.Inv.3.6. Adv. -κῶς ibid.
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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