Ancient Greek

Noun

πρόσληψῐς • ‎(próslēpsis) f ‎(genitive προσλήψεως or προσλήψῐος); third declension

1. taking in addition
   • bad argument #1 to 'lc' (string expected, got nil)
   • 161 CE – 180 CE, Hermogenes, On Types of Style 1.11
     Hermogenes, On Types of Style 2.6
   • 117 CE – 181 CE, Aelius Aristides, Rh. 1.473
   • 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Syntax 170.3
   • 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Pronouns 87.13
   1. acquisition
      • 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 17.1.2
        Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 18.9.6
      • Anon., Trop. 23
   2. rise in rank by acquisition of catoecic land
      • PTeb. 61.254
   3. enrollment
      • PTheb.Bank 8.4
2. (logic, rhetoric) additional assumption
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Prior Analytics 2.5.58b
   • 150 CE – 250 CE, Alexander of Aphrodisias, in APr. 378.14
   • Phlp., in APr. 416.24
   • Aps., Rh. p.288
   • 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Conjunctions 250.18
   1. minor premise
      • Crinis, Stoic. 3.269
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.387c
      • 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Conjunctions 250.21
      • 160 CE – 210 CE, Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism 2.149
      • 3rd century AD, Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 7.82
3. (Christianity) assumption, reception (into the Kingdom of Heaven)

Declension

Descendants

• English: proslepsis

References

• πρόσληψις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «πρόσληψις» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “G4356”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979