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πραγμα^τ-ειώδης , ες,
A.laborious, like work rather than play, “παιδιά” Pl.Prm.137b.
2. serious, important, based on reality, “ἀπορία” Simp. in Ph.1299.4, cf.Ammon.in Int.86.5, Simp.in Cat. 1.22.
b. concerned with facts or realities, material, opp. λογικός (formal), Procl. in Prm.p.820S., Dam.Pr.201 (Comp.). Adv. “-δῶς” Simp. in Cat. 194.4 (Comp.), Ascl.in Metaph.123.33, Diotog. ap. Stob.4.7.62 (-δέως), Eust.1762.5: Comp. “-εστέρως” Olymp.in Grg.p.355 J.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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