αἵρεσις: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=[[αἱρέω]]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> a [[taking]] [[especially]], especially of a [[town]], Hdt., etc.; ἡ βασιλῆος αἵρ. the [[taking]] by the [[king]], Hdt.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[means]] for [[taking]] a [[place]], Thuc.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> (αἱρέομαι) a [[taking]] for [[oneself]], a choosing, [[choice]], νέμειν, προτιθέναι, προβάλλειν to [[give]] or [[offer]] [[choice]], Hdt., [[attic]]; αἵρ. γίγνεταί τινι a [[choice]] is allowed one, Thuc.; αἵρεσιν λαμβάνειν to [[have]] [[choice]] given, Dem.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[choice]] or [[election]] of magistrates, Thuc., etc.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> a [[choice]], [[deliberate]] [[plan]], [[purpose]], Plat., etc.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> a [[sect]], [[school]], etc.: esp. a [[religious]] [[sect]], [[such]] as the Sadducees and Pharisees, NTest.<br /><b class="num">5.</b> a [[heresy]], Eccl.