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περιεκτικός , ή, όν, (περιέχω)
A.containing, c. gen., “π. ἑτέρου” Zeno Stoic.1.33 ; “θυλάκια π. σπερματίων” Dsc.2.148, cf. Cleom.1.8, S.E.M.10.24, Gal.4.722, 5.147, Ruf.Anat.30; “ὁ κόσμος ὁ νοητὸς ὅ τε αἰὼν περιεκτικὰ ἄμφω καὶ τῶν αὐτῶν” Plot.3.7.2, cf. Procl.Inst.177, Theol.Ar.60, etc.
2. all-embracing, “τὸ -ώτατον πάντων” Arr.Epict.1.9.4 ; comprehensive, Ptol.Geog.1.1.1 (Comp.), Dam.Pr.85 (Comp.); “διάλυσις” PLond.3.1008.4 (vi A.D.). Adv.-κῶς comprehensively, gloss on περιειλημμένως, Hsch.: Comp. “-ώτερον” Anon.in Cat.25.28, Hsch.
3. profit-making, opp. ἐκχύτης, Luc.Vit.Auct.24, Cat.Cod.Astr.8(4).173.
II. Gramm.,
1. π. ὄνομα a noun denoting a place in which a number are collected, as παρθενών, D.T.636.14, Ph.1.541, Hdn. Gr.1.35, al.
2. π. ῥῆμα a verb of both active and passive signification, as βιάζομαι, Sch. A.R. 1.1.
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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