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ἐξίστημι,
causal in present, imperfect, future, aorist 1:—displace: hence, change, alter utterly, τὰν φύσιν [[ 5th-4th c.BC: Timaeus Locrus Philosophus 100c, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1119a23, compare 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.2.7; τὴν πολιτείαν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cicero” 10; ἐ. τῆς ποιότητος τὸν οἶνον [prev. author] 2.702a. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 metaphorically, ἐξιστάναι τινὰ φρενῶν drive one out of his senses, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 850; νοῦ οἶνος ἐξέστησέ με 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 265; τοῦ φρονεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.3.12; ταῦτα κινεῖ, ταῦτα ἐξίστησιν ἀνθρώπους αὑτῶν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.72 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; simply ἐ. τινά drive one out of his senses, confound, amaze, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Κωακαὶ προγνώσιες” 429; ἐξιστάντα καὶ φοβοῦντα τοὺς ἀνθρώπους 1st c.AD: Musonius Philosophus “fragment” 8p.35H.; ἐξίστησι ] Refs 5th c.BC+]diverts the attention, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1408b23 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; excite,[[ [prev. work] 36, NT.Luke.24.22 ] NT]; τὸν λογισμόν, τὴν διάνοιαν, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Solon” 21, “Crass.” 23; also ἐ. τινὰ τῶν λογισμῶν [prev. author] “Fab.” 5; εἰς ἀπάθειαν ἐ. τὴν ψυχήν [prev. author] “Publ.” 6. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__3 get rid of, dispose of the claims of a person, [[ “Sammelb.” 5246.14 (1st c.BC), etc. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__4 ἐξεστᾰκότα (ἐξεστηκότα codex): εἰς δίκην κεκληκότα, [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus ] Refs 5th c.AD+]
Browse lexicon entries__B intransitive in passive and middle, with aorist 2, perfect, and pluperfect active:
__B.1 of Place, arise out of, become separated, ἐξ.. ἵστατο Νεῖκος [[ 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 36, compare 35.10 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; stand aside from, ἐκστάντες τῆς ὁδοῦ out of the way, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.76; ἐκ τοῦ μέσου 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.5.14 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; θάκων καὶ ὁδῶν ἐ. [τινί] stand out of the way forhim, make way for him, [[ [prev. author] “Smp.” 4.31; ἐκστῆναί τινι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1053, “Aj.” 672, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 354, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: absolutely, in same sense, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1229 (troch.), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 617, etc.: _metaphorically_, ἐξ ἕδρας σοι πλόκαμος ἐξέστηχ᾽ ] Refs 5th c.BC+]is displaced, disordered, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 928; οὐδὲ μένει νοῦς.. ἀλλ᾽ ἐξίσταται 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 564. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.2 with accusative, shrink from, shun, νιν οὐκ ἂν ἐξέστην ὄκνῳ [[ [prev. author] “Aj.” 82; οὐδέν᾽ ἐξίσταμαι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.319; οὐδένα πώποτε κίνδυνον ἐξέστησαν [prev. author] 20.10. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__B.3 go out of joint, ἐ. ἰσχίον [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 6.59, compare “Fract.” 14, 6. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.II with genitive of things, retire from, give up possession of, τῆς ἀρχῆς [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.63, 4.28 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκστῆναι τῆς οὐσίας, ἁπάντων τῶν ὄντων, become bankrupt, [[ 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.2.9, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 36.50; τῶν ὑπαρχόντων “BGU” 473.11 (2nd c.AD). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.II.2 cease from, abandon, τῆς φιλίας, τῶν μαθημάτων, [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 8.18, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.54 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τῶν σπουδασμάτων [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 249c, etc.; οἱ τῶν πολιτικῶν ἐξεστηκότες 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.171; τῆς ὑποθέσεως 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 10.46 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τῶν πεπραγμένων, i.e. disown them, [[ [prev. author] 19.72; ἐ. τινὸς εἴς τι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 907d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also ἐ. ἄθλου τινί, στρατηγίας τινί, abandon it in his favour, [[ 1st c.BC: Nicolaus Damascenus Historicus 73J., 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Nicias” 7; τῆς Σικελίας τινι [prev. author] “Pomp.” 10. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__B.II.3 ἐκστῆναι πατρός lose one's father, give him up, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 477 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; καρδίας ἐξίσταμαι τὸ δρᾶν I depart from my heart's purpose, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1105 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially φρενῶν ἐκστῆναι lose one's senses. [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1021, etc.; διὰ τὸ γῆρας τοῦ φρονεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.18; ἐμαυτοῦ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.4, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Σαμία” 276; ψυχὴ ἐξεστηκυῖα τῶν λογισμῶν 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 32.15.8 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: absolutely, to be out of one's wits, be distraught, ἐ. μελαγχολικῶς [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προρρητικόν” 1.18, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Σαμία” 64, etc.; ἐξέστην ἰδών 4th-3rd c.BC: Philippides Comicus 27; ἐ. ὑπὸ γήρως “Comica Adespota” 860 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ταῖς διανοίαις Vett. Val.70.25; ἐξίστασθαι καὶ μαίνεσθαι πρὸς τὴν ὀσμήν [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 577a12 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of anger, εὐθέως ἐξστησόμενος [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Ir.” p.78 W.] Refs 1st c.BC+]; to be astonished, amazed, [[NT.Matt.12.23, NT.Mark.2.12, etc.] NT]; lose consciousness, of Sisera, [[ LXX.Josh.4.21. ] LXX]
__B.II.4 ἐξίστασθαι τῆς αὑτοῦ ἰδέας depart from, degenerate from one's own nature, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 380d; ἐκ τῆς αὑτοῦ φύσεως 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 488b19; [δημοκρατία] ἐξεστηκυῖα τῆς βελτίστης τάξεως [prev. author] “Pol.” 1309b32 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἱ δημοκρατίαι ἐ. εἰς τὰς ἐναντίας πολιτείας degenerate into..,[[ [prev. work] 1306b18, compare “Rh.” 1390b28: _absolutely_, ἐ. μὴ μεταφυτευόμενον 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 6.7.6, etc., compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.649e; χυμὸς ἐξιστάμενος ] Refs 4th c.BC+]changing its properties, turning, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 24 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἶνος ἐξεστηκώς or ἐξιστάμενος changed, sour wine, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 35.32, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 6.7.5 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; πρόσωπα ἐξεστηκότα disfigured faces, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.2.34. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.II.5 absolutely, change one's position, one's opinion, ἐγὼ μὲν ὁ αὐτός εἰμι καὶ οὐκ ἐξίσταμαι [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.61: opposed to ἐμμένειν τῇ δόξῃ, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1151b4. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.II.6 of language, to be removed from common usage, [[ [prev. author] “Rh.” 1404b13. ] Refs]
__B.III stand out, project, ἐξεστηκός convex, opposed to κοῖλον, [[ [prev. author] “HA” 493b4. ] Refs]