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|Definition=poet. aor. <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">pray for</b>, c. acc. θεσσάμενος γενεήν <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Fr.</span> 201</span>; γλυκερὸν νόστον <span class="bibl">Archil.11</span>; παίδων γένος <span class="bibl">A.R.1.824</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Euph. 136</span>: c. inf., <b class="b3">τάν ποτ' εὔανδρον [εἶναι] . . θέσσαντο</b> <b class="b2">prayed that</b> this land might be... <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>5.10</span> (Hsch. also has <b class="b3">θέσσεσθαι, θεσσόμενος, θήσω, θησόμενοι, θησάμενοι</b>):—hence Adj. θεστός, only in compds. <b class="b3">ἀπόθεστος, πολύθεστος</b> (q.v.), Boeot. pr. n. <b class="b3">Θεόφειστος</b>, Ion. <b class="b3">Ἐρμόθεστος</b>. (Perh. <b class="b2">g[uglide]hedh-</b>, cf. [[πόθος]] (fr. <b class="b3">φόθος</b>), OIr. <b class="b2">-guidiu</b>, Welsh <b class="b2">gweddïo</b> 'pray', Lith. <b class="b2">gedėti</b> 'mourn'; <b class="b3">θήσω, θησόμενοι, θησάμενοι</b> seem to be analogical formations.)</span>