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ἀδόκιμ-ος

adokimos

not legal tender, not current

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Where it lives

Titus 1 · 15.43/10k
Letter 8 1 · 15.04/10k
2 Timothy 1 · 8.34/10k
2 Corinthians 3 · 6.69/10k
Apollodorus Against Polycles 1 · 2.18/10k
Oeconomica II 1 · 2.13/10k
Constitution of the Lacedaemonians 1 · 2.06/10k
Hebrews 1 · 1.99/10k
Economics 1 · 1.61/10k
Against Aristogeiton 1 1 · 1.49/10k
1 Corinthians 1 · 1.48/10k
Romans 1 · 1.43/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἀδόκιμ-ος · adokim-os — LSJ

not legal tender, not current, not approved

not legal tender, not current, of coin, Pl. Lg. 742a; not approved, of horses, Arist. Ath. 49.1.

2 unsatisfactory, unconvincing

unsatisfactory, unconvincing, of a statement, Ph. Bel. 76.47, Alex.Aphr. in Top. 576.14.

3 disreputable

disreputable, λακίσματʼ ἀδόκιμʼ ὀλβίοις ἔχειν E. Tr. 497; μοῦσα Pl. Lg. 829d, cf. D. 25.36, Ep.Rom. 1.28. Adv. -μως Poll. 5.160.

4 discredited, reprobate

of persons, Pl. R. 618b; discredited, reprobate, X. Lac. 3.3, 2 Ep.Tim. 3.8, etc.

In the wild

ἀδόκιμός · adokimos Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..49 (DIORISIS sentence 579)
ἀδόκιμον · adokimon Aristotle, Economics 1347a (DIORISIS sentence 155)
ἀδόκιμον · adokimon Aristotle, Oeconomica II (DIORISIS sentence 43)
ἀδόκιμα · adokima Demosthenes, Against Aristogeiton 1 36 (DIORISIS sentence 106)
ἀδόκιμα · adokima Demosthenes, Apollodorus Against Polycles 36 (DIORISIS sentence 81)
ἀδοκίμων · adokimōn Epictetus, Discourses 1.7 (DIORISIS sentence 369)

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Where it came from

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