χρέεσθαι (chreesthai)

χρέεσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of χράω, meaning “to declare (an oracle); to lend; (mid.) use”. It is the present middle/passive infinitive.

Found 90 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 5.9.59: … αἱ γοῦν Ἰάδες μοῦσαι διαρρήδην λέγουσι τοὺς μὲν πολλοὺς καὶ δοκησισόφους δήμων ἀοιδοῖσιν ἕπεσθαι καὶ νόμοισι χρέεσθαι, εἰδότας ὅτι πολλοὶ κακοί, ὀλίγοι δὲ ἀγαθοί· τοὺς ἀρίστους δὲ τὸ κλέος μεταδιώκειν. αἱρεῦνται γάρ, φησίν, ἓν …

Hippocrates, De articulis 52·2: … ὶ ἐκτεθηλυσμένον καὶ λεπτότερον γίνεται, ἅμα μὲν, διὰ τὴν στέρησιν τῆς χώρης τοῦ ἄρθρου, ἅμα δὲ, ὅτι ἀδύνατον χρέεσθαί ἐστιν, ὅτι οὐ κατὰ φύσιν κέεται· χρῆσις γὰρ μετεξετέρη ῤύεται τῆς ἄγαν ἐκθηλύνσιος· ῥύεται δέ τι καὶ τῆς ἐπὶ …

All forms of χράω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.