Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

χαριστήριος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χαριστήριος χαριστήριον

Structure: χαριστηρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or for thanksgiving
  2. a thank-offering, thank-offerings

Examples

  • τῆσ μὲν ὁλοκαυτεῖται πᾶν τὸ θυόμενον καὶ διὰ τοῦτο καὶ τὴν προσηγορίαν τοιαύτην ἔλαβεν, ἡ δὲ χαριστήριόσ τέ ἐστι καὶ κατ’ εὐωχίαν δρᾶται τῶν τεθυκότων· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 3 283:1)

Synonyms

  1. a thank-offering

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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