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|mdlsjtxt=[Dep.]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> from the [[sense]] of consulting or using an [[oracle]] (v. χράω3 ) [[comes]] the [[common]] [[sense]] to use, Lat. uti, Il., etc.; φρεσὶ κέχρητ' ἀγαθῆισι he was endowed with a [[good]] [[heart]], Od.: c. dat., [[χρῆσθαι]] ἀργυρίωι to [[have]] [[money]] to use for a [[purpose]], use it thereon, Plat.; χρ. ναυτιλίηισι, θαλάσσηι Hdt., Thuc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> in [[various]] relations, ὀργῆι or θυμῶι [[χρῆσθαι]] to [[indulge]] one's [[anger]], [[give]] [[vent]] to it, Hdt.<br />b. of [[external]] things, to [[experience]], [[suffer]], be [[subject]] to, νιφετῶι Hdt.; χρ. γαληνείαι to [[have]] [[fair]] [[weather]], Eur.; ὁμολογίαι χπ. to [[come]] to an [[agreement]], Hdt.; ζυγῶι χρ. δουλίωι to [[become]] a [[slave]], Aesch.; συμφορῆι, συντυχίηι, εὐτυχίηι χρ., Lat. uti [[fortuna]] [[mala]], prospera, Hdt., etc.; νόμοις χρ. to [[live]] under laws, Eur.; χρ. ἀνομίαι Xen., etc.:—in [[many]] cases, [[χρῆσθαι]] [[merely]] paraphrases the Verb [[cognate]] to its dat., μόρωι χρ. i. e. to die, Hdt.; ὠνῆι καὶ πράσει χρ. = ὠνεῖσθαι καὶ πιπράσκειν, to buy and [[sell]], Hdt.; χρ. δρασμῶι = διδράσκειν, Aeschin.; χρ. φωνῆι = φωνεῖν, διαβολῆι χρ. = διαβάλλεσθαι etc., Plat.<br />c. χρῆσθαί τινι εἴς τι to use for an end or [[purpose]], Hdt., Xen., etc.; ἐπί τι or πρός τι Xen.;—also with neut. adj. as adv., χρ. τινι [[ὅ τι]] βούλεταί τις to make [[what]] use one likes of him, Hdt.; ἀπορέων [[ὅ τι]] χρήσεται not [[knowing]] [[what]] to make of it, Hdt.; τί χρήσομαι τούτωι; [[what]] use shall I make of him? Ar.; οὐκ ἂν ἔχοις [[ὅ τι]] χρῶιο σαυτῶι Plat.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> of persons, χρῆσθαί τινι, with an adv. of [[manner]], to [[treat]] him so and so, χρῆσθαί τινι ὡς ἀνδρὶ ψεύστηι Hdt.; χρῆσθαί τινι ὡς φίλωι Thuc.; also, [[φιλικῶς]] χρῆσθαί τινι Xen.; but ὡς is often omitted, ἔμοιγε χρώμενος διδασκάλωι Aesch., etc.:—also, χρῆσθαί τινι (without φίλωι) like Lat. uti for uti [[familiariter]], to be [[intimate]] with a man, Xen.:—absol., οἱ χρώμενοι friends, Xen.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> [[χρῆσθαι]] ἑαυτῶι to make use of one's powers, Plat.; also, παρέχειν ἑαυτόν τινι [[χρῆσθαι]] to [[place]] [[oneself]] at the [[disposal]] of [[another]], Xen.<br /><b class="num">5.</b> absol., or with an adv., [[οὕτω]] χρῶνται οἱ Πέρσαι so the Persians are [[wont]] to do, [[such]] is [[their]] [[custom]], Xen.<br /><b class="num">6.</b> perf. [[κέχρημαι]] (in pres. [[sense]]), to be in [[need]] or [[want]] of, to [[yearn]] [[after]], c. gen., Hom., Soph., Eur.:—[[part]]. [[κεχρημένος]] used as an adj., [[needy]], in [[need]], [[poor]], Od., Hes., Eur.<br /><b class="num">7.</b> the perf. appears as a strengthd. pres., to [[have]] in use, and so to [[have]], [[possess]], φρεσὶ γὰρ κέχρητ' ἀγαθῆισι Od.<br /><b class="num">8.</b> aor1 [[pass]]. χρησθῆναι, to be used, αἱ [[νέες]] οὐκ ἐχρήσθησαν Hdt.; ἕως ἂν χρησθῆι so [[long]] as it be in use, Dem.<br /><b class="num">IV.</b> for χρή, v. sub voc.

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