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ἀνόσιος , ον, more rarely α, ον E.Tr.1316 (lyr.), Aeschin.2.157 (dub.), and later:—
A.unholy, profane, opp. ἄδικος, as ὅσιος to δίκαιος (v. “ὅσιος” 1.1), of persons, A.Th.611, S.OT353, etc.; “ἀ. ὁ θεομισής” Pl. Euthphr.7a; “ἄδικος καὶ ἀ.” Id.Grg.505b.
2. of things, ἔργον, μόρος, στόμα, etc., Hdt.2.114, 3.65, S.OC981, etc.; “αὐδῶν ἀνόσι᾽ οὐδὲ ῥητά μοι” Id.OT1289; “ἀνόσια πάσχειν” Antipho 2.4.7; “ἀσεβὲς μηδὲν μηδὲ ἀ.” X.Cyr.8.7.22; “οὐ μόνον ἄνομον ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀ.” Id.Lac.8.5; ἀ. νέκυς a corpse with all the rites unpaid, S Ant.1071; ἀ. τι γεγένηται ἐμοῦ παρόντος the holy rites have been profaned, Antipho 5.84.
II. Adv. “-ίως” in unholy wise, S.Ph.257; κάτω γῆς ἀ. οἰκῶν without funeral rites, or through an unholy deed, E.El.677.
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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