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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

  • ὕστερον δὲ χρόνῳ τῆσ ἀρχῆσ ἐκείνησ ἤδη πεπαυμένοσ ἀνήνεγκε περὶ τούτων εἰσ τήν σύγκλητον, οἵ τε μάντεισ ἤγγελλον ἐπὶ τοῖσ ἱεροῖσ προφαίνεσθαι θεῶν μῆνιν ἱλασμοῦ καὶ χαριστηρίων δεομένην. (Plutarch, Camillus, chapter 7 5:1)

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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