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κι?ν-ημα , ατος, τό,
A.movement, “οὔθ᾽ ἡ γραμμὴ ἐκ στιγμῶν οὔθ᾽ ἡ κίνησις ἐκ κινημάτων” Arist.Ph.241a4, cf. 232a9, Mu.400a8, etc.; of the movements of pantomimic actors, Luc.Salt.62.
2. political movement, Plb.5.29.3, al., Plu.Fab.20 (pl.).
b. uproar, excitement, LXX 1 Ma.13.44, Plu.Aem.18.
3. κινήματα τῆς σαρκός impressions of sense, Epicur.Fr.411; “κ. λεῖον” Stoic.2.25; “κ. μελῳδητικὸν περὶ τὴν ψυχήν” Thphr.Fr.89.1: abs., kinh/mata impressions, emotions, Epicur. Fr.131: sg., Epict.Fr.14, S.E.M.11.83, etc.
4. Medic., subluxation of a bone, partial dislocation, Hp.Fract.47 (pl.).
b. τὰ τῶν καιρῶν κ., of periods in disease, Gal.19.184.
5. Gramm., inflexion, Hdn. Gr.2.265, al.
6. pl., moving things, Max.Tyr.41.2.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Polybius, Histories, 5.29.3
    • Hippocrates, De fracturis, 47
    • Old Testament, 1 Maccabees, 13.44
    • Plutarch, Fabius Maximus, 20
    • Plutarch, Aemilius Paullus, 18
    • Lucian, De saltatione, 62
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