A.incurable, desperate, fatal, ἄλγος, χόλος, Il. 5.394, 15.217; “ἀ. πάθος ἔρδειν τινά” Hdt.1.137; “ἀ. λώβην λωβᾶσθαί τινα” Id.3.154; “λυμαίνεσθαί τινα λύμησι ἀ.” Id.6.12, cf. A.Ch.516, etc.; κακόν, κακά, συμφοραί, Hes.Th.612, Archil.9.5, Th.5.111; μίασμα . . ἀ. τρέφειν keep it till it is past cure, S.OT98; “ἁμαρτάδες” Hp.Acut.39; “ἔργον” Antipho 5.91; “πονηρία” X.Mem.3.5.18; “ἀνήκεστα ποιεῖν τινα” ruin utterly, Id.An.2.5.5; ἀνήκεστα πάσχειν to be utterly ruined, Th. 3.39; “ἀ. τι παθεῖν” D.54.5; “ἀ. τι βουλεῦσαι περί τινος” Th.1.132; ἁπάντων “τῶν ἀνηκέστων αἴτιον” D.21.70, etc.
2. of persons, “ἀ. πλεονέκται” X.Oec.14.8; “χρήσασθαί τινι τῶν ἐχθρῶν ὡς ἀνηκέστῳ” Plu.Per. 39; “ἀ. εἴς τι” J.AJ18.6.10: Comp. -έστερος f.l. in Antipho 5.91: Sup., Ph.2.316.
III. Adv. ἀνηκέστως, διατιθέναι treat cruelly, Hdt.3.155, cf. 8.28; “ἀ. ἔχειν” Aret.SD1.5, App.BC2.123.