χρῆσις, εως, ἡ,
(χράομαι)
__Iemployment, use made of a thing, ἀνέμων [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 11(10).2; χρημάτων 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 282; οἰκίας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Eryxias” 394d, compare “SIG” 987.33 (Chios, 4th c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὴν κατ᾽ ἀξίαν χ. ποιοῦνται ἑκάστῳ (perhaps to be read ἑκάστου) [[ 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “Protrepticus” 5 ] Refs 4th c.AD+]; use, practice, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; in plural, uses, advantages, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 1.30 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἱ ἐς τὰ πολεμικὰ χ. the uses of war, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.5.7; αἱ πολιτικαὶ χ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1267a23 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to κτῆσις, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 238b, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1098b32, 1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Epistulae ad Familiares” 7.29.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to πώλησις, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 3.9. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.2 usefulness, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.5 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to ἀχρηστία, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 333d; ἐς χρῆσιν κρατύνεσθαι ] Refs 5th c.BC+]so as to become useful, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 27 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔχειν χρῆσιν to be useful, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 11.8. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__I.3 intimacy, acquaintance, ἡ οἰκειότης καὶ ἡ χ. [τῆς πόλεως] [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator “Epistulae” 2.14; ἡ χ. ἡ πρὸς ἀλλήλους 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1280a36; αἱ οἴκοι χρήσεις 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 19.11; ἡ τῶν ἀφροδισίων χ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 841a, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 581b13, compare “Pol.” 1262a34 (_plural_), NT.Rom.1.26 ] NT+5th c.BC+]; τὰ ἐν χρήσει familiar objects, [[ 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 4.4.37. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]