to be unwilling, dislike, object to
to be unwilling, Pl. R. 437c: c. acc. inf., Id. Ep. 347a:—c. acc., dislike, object to, D.C. 55.9.
II not to will, without willing
not to will, οὐ γὰρ -ῶν ἐνεργεῖ without willing, Plot. 6.8.13, cf. ib. 21.
The corpus record
ἀβουλ-έω
abouleo
to be unwilling
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Where it lives
- Epistles 1 · 0.59/10k
- Regnorum I 1 · 0.54/10k
- Enneads 3 · 0.14/10k
- Republic 1 · 0.11/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ἀβουλῶν · aboulōn Plato, Epistles 346
- ἀβουλεῖν · aboulein Plato, Republic 4.437 (DIORISIS sentence 2559)
- ἠβουλήθη · ēboulēthē Plotinus, Enneads 6.7 (DIORISIS sentence 5776)
- ἀβουλῶν · aboulōn Plotinus, Enneads 6.8 (DIORISIS sentence 6280)
- ἀβουλοῦντος · aboulountos Plotinus, Enneads 6.8 (DIORISIS sentence 6370)
- ἠβουλήθην · ēboulēthēn Septuaginta, Regnorum I 24 (DIORISIS sentence 541)
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.