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ἄκρα_τος , Ion. ἄκρητος , ον : (κεράννυμι):
1. of liquids, unmixed, neat, esp. of wine, Od.24.73; ἄκρητοι σπονδαί drink-offerings of pure wine, Il.2.341, 4.159; οἶνος πάνυ ἄ. very strong, X.An.4.5.27; οἶνος ἄκρητος wine without water, Hdt.1.207, etc.; ἄκρατος (without οἶνος) Ar.Eq.105, etc.; ὁ πολὺς ἄ. ὁλίγ᾽ ἀναγκάζει φρονεῖν Men.779, cf. Call.Epigr.43, Phoen.3.3; ἄκρατον, τό, Arist.Po.1461a15; “γάλα” Od.9.297; “αἷμα” A.Ch.578, etc.(without “αἷμα” Hp.Epid.1.26.ά); “χυμός” Hp.VM14; “ὑποχωρήσιες” Id.Aph.7.6; “διάρροια” Th.2.49. Adv. “-τως” Hp.Prorrh.2.24 (-κρίτως Littre).
2. of any objects, ἄ. σώματα pure, simple bodies, Pl.Ti.57c; “ἄ. χρῶμα” Hp.Acut.42; ἄ. μέλαν pure black, Thphr.Col.26; “ἄ. νύξ” Ael.Fr.262, cf.NA12.33; “ἄ. σκότος” Plu. Nic.21; “ἄ. σκιά” Id.2.932b.
3. of qualities, pure, absolute, “ἄ. νοῦς” X.Cyr.8.7.20; “πῶς . . ἡ ἄ. δικαιοσύνη πρὸς ἀδικίαν τὴν ἄ. ἔχει” Pl.R.545a, cf. 491e. Adv. “-τως” Lg.731d.
4. of conditions or states, pure, untempered, absolute, ἐλευθερία, ἡδονή, R.562d, Lg.793a; “ὀλιγαρχία” Arist.Pol.1273b37, etc.; “παρρησία” Demad.18; “νόμων ἀποτομία” POxy. 237 vii 40 (ii A. D.); ἄ. νόμος absolute law, Pl.Lg.723a; ἄ. ψεῦδος sheer lie, Id.R.382c. Adv.ἀκράτως absolutely, entirely, ἀ. μέλας, λευκός, Ael. NA16.11, Luc.DMar.1.3.
5. of persons, intemperate, violent, “ἄ. ὀργήν” A.Pr.678; of sleep, ἄ. ἐλθέ come with all thy power, E.Cyc. 602.
6. of feelings, “ἄ. ὀργή” Alcid. ap. Arist.Rh.1406a10; “ἵμερος” S.Fr.941; “ἄ. καῦμα” AP9.71 (Antiphil.); “φόβος” EM621.13; “τὸ τῆς δεισιδαιμονίας ἄ.” J.BJ2.9.3, etc.
II. Comp.ἀκρατέστερος, Ion. ἀκρητ- (asiffr.ἀκρατής) Hp.VM5, Hyp.Dem.Fr.(b), Arist.Pr.871a16, Thphr. Od.24: Sup.“ἀκρατέστατος” Pl.Phlb.53a: but “ἀκρατότερος” Plu.2.677c.
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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