δοκῐμ-ᾰσία, ἡ,
examination, scrutiny:
__1 of magistrates after election, to see if they fulfil the legal requirements of legitimacy, full citizenship, etc., ἡ δ. τῶν στρατηγῶν [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 15.2, compare 16.9 (_plural_); τῶν ἱερέων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 759d; δ. εἰσάγειν ταῖς ἀρχαῖς 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 59.4 (_plural_), compare “IG” 22.856,980. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 δ. τῶν ἱππέων passing muster, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitum magistro” 3.9 (_plural_). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 δ. (i.e. ἐφήβων), before admission to the rights of manhood, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 44.41, see reading in 57.62. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__4 δ. τῶν ῥητόρων a judicial process to determine the right of a man to speak in the ἐκκλησία or in the law-courts, [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.2. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__5 examination of recruits, [[ “PLond.” 3.982.6 (4th c.AD). ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__6 generally, test, δ. ἱκανήν [τινος] λαβεῖν make full trial of, [[ 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 7.34 ] Refs 4th c.BC+] (but, receive assurance of.., [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.31.8); ἡ κατὰ τὸν χρόνον δ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1162a14; κρίσιν καὶ δ. τινῶν ποιεῖν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cleomenes” 10; λίθος δοκιμασίας LXX.Sir.6.21; δ. οἰκοδόμων “PSI” 3.176 (5th c.AD). ] LXX+4th c.BC+]