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Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek
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Words With Similar Definitions
Greek1: dioikisis 2: treptikos 3: prodiakinêsis 4: antiperiagôgê 5: metakinêsis
Latin1: irrequies 2: agitatus 3: exercitatio 4: motio 5: momentum
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Words That Regularly Appear With kinêsis
In Perseus Texts:kineôgenesisarchêstasisenergeia
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kinêsis [i_], eôs, hê, motion, opp. rest (stasis), Plat. Soph. 250a; opp. êremia, Arist.Ph.202a5, etc.

2. in Cyrenaic philos., leia k., = hêdonê, tracheia k., = ponos , D.L.2.86; also hai dia morphês kat' opsin hêdeiai k. Epicur.Fr.67; hai k. hai anthrôpikai human emotions, Arr.Epict. 2.20.19.

3. dance, Areos kinasis (sic) Tyrt.16, cf. Luc.Salt.63, Ephes.2 No.au=Ephes. 71; tragikê enruthmos k. Inscr.Magn.165.

4. movement, in a political sense, en k. einai Thuc. 3.75, cf. Plb.3.4.12; hê k. hê Ioudaïkê the Jewish revolt, OGI543.15 (Ancyra, ii A.D.); of the Peloponn. war, Thuc. 1.1.

5. change, revolution, kinêseis politeias Aristot. Pol. 1268b25.

6. movement of an army, Plb.10.23.1 (pl.); polemikai k. Ael.Tact.3.4, cf. Arr.Tact.20.1.



7. Gramm., inflexion, tou zêmi k. ouch heurêtai EM410.38.

8. in Law, punitive action, basilikê k. Cod.Just.1.3.43.10, cf. au=Cod.Just. 10.27.2.7; also, setting a process in motion, PLond. 5.1663.13 (vi A.D.).