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σχημα^τ-ισμός , ὁ,
A.configuration, οἱ κατὰ μῆνα ς. [τῆς σελήνης] Arist.Cael.297b26, cf. Gem.9.11, Ptol.Tetr.1, Porph. ap. Eus.PE3.11; “τοῦ στόματος” Arist.Aud.800a23, cf. Phld.Mus.p.73 K.; “τῆς φλογός” Thphr.Ign.54.
2. bearing, attitude, ὅλον τὸν τοῦ σώματος ς. Pl.R.425b, cf. Zeno Stoic.1.58 (pl.), Hipparch.1.4.10, Plu.Dem.9, Num.8, Dio13; σχηματισμοὶ προσώπου expressions assumed by . . , D.H.Dem.54; “τοῦ τε προσώπου καὶ τῶν χειρῶν” Plu.2.1047a.
3. in bad sense, assumption of manner, “σχηματισμοῦ καὶ φρονήματος κενοῦ . . ἐμπιπλάμενος” Pl.R.494d: generally, assumption of what does not belong to one, pretence, Plu.Nic.3, Arat.49.
II. σχῆμα, shape, even of something immutable, as an atom, Epicur.Ep.1p.15U. (pl.), al.
2. the atom itself, “ὁ πυρὸς ἀποτελεστικὸς ς. ἐξολισθαίνων ἀστραπὴν γεννᾷ” Id.Ep.2p.45, cf. p.46 U.
3. in Tactics, formation, Ascl.Tact.12.1 (pl.).
III. in language, ὁ ποιητικὸς ς. the poetical formation (πελειάς = Πλειάς), Ath.11.490d; πληθυντικὸς ς. a plural form, Dam.Pr.337.
2. figure in a dance, Plot.4.4.33.
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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