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.
- καὶ χρᾶσθαι δέ τινοσ εἰπόντοσ, Ψευδαττικόν, κόν, ἔφη, τὸ ῥῆμα. (Lucian, 7:5)
- τοὺσ ἑλόντασ δὲ περιορᾶν κατασαπῆναί σφισι τὴν σάρκα, τῷ δὲ ὀστέῳ ἐσ κόσμον χρᾶσθαι. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 8 12:3)
- τούτων μετεξέτερα τῶν κητέων ἐποκέλλειν πολλαχοῦ τῆσ χώρησ, ἐπειδὰν ἀνάπωτισ κατάσχῃ, ἐν τοῖσι βραχέσιν ἐχόμενα, τὰ δὲ καὶ ὑπὸ χειμώνων σκληρῶν ἐσ τὴν χέρσον ἐξωθέεσθαι, καὶ οὕτω δὴ κατασηπόμενα ἀπόλλυσθαί τε καὶ τὰσ σάρκασ αὐτοῖσι περιρρεούσασ ὑπολείπειν τὰ ὀστέα χρᾶσθαι τοῖσιν ἀνθρώποισιν ἐσ τὰ οἰκία. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 30 8:1)
- δεῖ οὖν τὸν ὑγιείασ ἀντιποιούμενον καὶ συμμέτροισ γυμνασίοισ χρᾶσθαι διὰ τοὺσ πολλοὺσ ἱδρῶτασ καὶ λουτροῖσ, ὡσ διᾶναί τε τὸ σῶμα καὶ μαλαχθῆναι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 242)
- ἀπὸ δὲ τούτων γενόμενοσ στρατιώτασ συνήγαγεν καὶ συναγοράσασ ἵππουσ ἀνεδίδου τοῖσ δυναμένοισ χρᾶσθαι. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 19, chapter 91 5:1)
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)
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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)
