χράω
α-contract Verb;
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
χράω
Structure:
χρά
(Stem)
+
ω
(Ending)
Sense
- to furnish what is needful
- to furnish the needful answer, to declare, pronounce, proclaim, to warn or direct by oracle, that
- to consult a god or oracle, to inquire of, consult, using an oracle, to use, to consult the oracle, the consulters, one who has received an oracular response
- to furnish with, to furnish the use of, to lend, to have furnished one, borrow, lent, borrowed
Conjugation
The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.
Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.
- ἅπαντι γοῦν τότε χρῆται τῷ δρόμῳ καὶ ὅλον ἐπιδοὺσ ἑαυτὸν τῷ τάχει ἁμιλλᾶται καὶ πρὸσ τοῦ πεδίου τὸ κάλλοσ. (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 10:3)
- ἆρ’ ἄν τισ ἀνάσχοιτο ἀποκηρύττοντα, ὅτι μὴ κατὰ τὰ ἐκείνῳ δοκοῦντα ὁ παῖσ χρῆται τῇ τέχνῃ; (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 22:9)
- καὶ γὰρ ἐφόδοισ χρῆται καὶ προκατασκευαῖσ καὶ μερισμοῖσ τεχνικωτέροισ καὶ τίθησιν ἐν οἷσ δίδωσι χρῆσιν ἕκαστον καὶ μέχρι πολλοῦ προάγει τὰσ τῶν ἐπιχειρημάτων ἐξεργασίασ σχημάτων τε μεταβολαῖσ ἐναγωνίων καὶ παθητικῶν ποικίλλει τοὺσ λόγουσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 3 1:6)
- καὶ οὐδὲ ταύτην τὴν διήγησιν ἁπλῶσ πωσ συστρέψασ καὶ ἀκατασκευάστωσ τίθησιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ταύτην μακροτέραν οὖσαν ἀποτομαῖσ τισι διαλαμβάνει καὶ καθ’ ἕκαστον εἶδοσ μάρτυρασ ἀναβιβάζεται καὶ προκλήσεισ ἀναγινώσκει καὶ συνθήκασ παρέχεται τεκμηρίοισ τε καὶ σημείοισ καὶ τοῖσ ἐκ τῶν εἰκότων ἐλέγχοισ ἅπασι χρῆται. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 15 1:1)
- ἑξάπουσ δὲ οὖσα τοῖσ μὲν τέσσαρσι βαδίξει μόνοισ, τοῖσ δὲ προσθίοισ δυσὶ καὶ ὅσα χερσὶ χρῆται. (Lucian, Muscae Encomium, (no name) 3:6)
Synonyms
-
to furnish what is needful
- σάττω (to furnish with all things needful, furnished)
-
to consult a god or oracle
- ἀναφαίνω (to proclaim, declare, to proclaim)
- ἐκχράω (to declare as an oracle, tell out)
- διακηρύσσω (to proclaim by herald, in declared war)
- θεσπίζω (to declare by oracle, prophesy, divine)
-
to furnish with
- προσδανείζω (to lend besides, to have lent one, to borrow)
- δανείζω (to have lent to one, to borrow)
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- προσδανείζω (to lend besides, to have lent one, to borrow)
- δανείζω (to have lent to one, to borrow)
Derived
- ἀποχράω (to suffice, be sufficient, be enough)
- ἐγχράω (to dash against, there were, urged)
- ἐκχράω (to declare as an oracle, tell out, to suffice)
- ἐπιχράω (to attack, assault, beset)
- ἐπιχράω (to lend besides)
- καταχράομαι (to make full use of, apply, to use to the uttermost)
- χράω ( to fall upon, attack, assail)
