ἐξοχ-ή, ἡ,
(ἐξέχω) prominence, ἐ. κεράτων elevated nature, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 663a8; πέτρας LXX.Job.39.28 ] LXX+4th c.BC+]; ζῴων ἐξοχαί embossed figures on shields, [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 5.30; εἰσοχαὶ καὶ ἐ. 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 1.120, compare 6th c.AD: Simplicius Philosophus “in Aristotelis de Caelo commentaria - Comm. in Arist. Graeca” 409.13 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; wart, [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 2.104; ἐ. ἀκανθώδεις [prev. author] 3.16; also, ={ἐξοχάδες}, [prev. work]80;] Refs 1st c.AD+] extremities of animals, [[ 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 3.10.3. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II metaphorically, pre-eminence, ἐ. in nullo est, [[ 1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Epistulae ad Atticum” 4.15.7; ἀπεργάσασθαι τὴν ἐ. 3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor 10.3 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; δι᾽ ἐξοχὴν μορφῆς Hierocl.p.55 [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus; κατ᾽ ἐξοχήν ] Refs 4th c.BC+]par excellence, [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 1.2.10, 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.65, 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Syntaxi;” 26.15, “OGI” 764.52 (2nd c.BC), etc.] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; οἱ κατ᾽ ἐξοχὴν τῆς πόλεως leading men, [[ NT.Act.25.23. ] NT]