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χρήσει (chresei)

χρήσει is an Ancient Greek form of χρῆσις, meaning “use, employment”. It is the dative singular feminine noun.

Found 45 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Philopoemen 13.3: ἦν γὰρ ἀλλότριος σχολῆς, καθάπερ ἄλλο τι κτῆμα τὴν στρατηγικὴν καὶ πολεμικὴν ἀρετὴν ἔχειν διὰ παντὸς ἐν χρήσει καὶ τριβῇ βουλόμενος, ὡς καὶ τῷ περὶ Πτολεμαίου ποτὲ ῥηθέντι τοῦ βασιλέως ἀπεδήλωσεν. ἐκεῖνον γὰρ ἐγκωμιαζόντ …

Callimachus, Hymn to Athena 126: χρησεῖ, καὶ μεγάλοις ὕστερα Λαβδακίδαις.

All forms of χρῆσις (declension 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.