inclined to thrust, pushing, impetuosity
inclined to thrust, pushing, ὠστικὴ . . ἡ τοῦ πνεύματος φύσις Arist. MA 703a23; τὸ ὠ. impetuosity, Arr. Epict. 4.1.84. Adv. -κῶς ib. 2.9.5, M.Ant. 9.3.
The corpus record
ὠσ-τικός
ostikos
inclined to thrust, pushing
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Where it lives
- Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
- Discourses 2 · 0.27/10k
- Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ὠστικῶς · ōstikōs Epictetus, Discourses 2.9 (DIORISIS sentence 2311)
- ὠστικὸν · ōstikon Epictetus, Discourses 4.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5990)
- ὠστικῶς · ōstikōs Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 9.3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1425)
- ὠστικὴ · ōstikē Plotinus, Enneads 6.3 (DIORISIS sentence 5164)
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.