The corpus record

ἀδι-όριστος

adioristos

indesignate

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Where it lives

Analytica priora et posteriora 27 · 4.86/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 2 · 0.36/10k
Metaphysics 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant — LSJ

indesignate, undefined, indefinite, vaguely, loosely

in Logic, indesignate, Arist. APr. 26b23; undefined, ἀ. ἀπολέλοιπε τὴν ἀρετὴν τοῦ ποιητοῦ Phld. Po. 1425.1, al.; indefinite, ἄδηλον καὶ ἀ. Arist. PA 639a22, cf. Dam. Pr. 37, al. Adv. -τως Arist. Ph. 184b11, al.; vaguely, loosely, Anon. in SE 62.31.

In the wild

ἀδιορίστου · adioristou Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora APr.Α (DIORISIS sentence 88)
ἀδιορίστου · adioristou Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora APr.Α (DIORISIS sentence 46)
ἀδιορίστου · adioristou Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora APr.Α (DIORISIS sentence 329)
ἀδιορίστου · adioristou Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora APr.Α (DIORISIS sentence 575)
ἀδιορίστως · adioristōs Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora APr.Α (DIORISIS sentence 96)
ἀδιόριστος · adioristos Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora APr.Α (DIORISIS sentence 2)

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