Citations:chrestic

English citations of chrestic

Adjective

1. of or relating to use; useful; practical (?)
   • 1872, Prof. Grote, “On Glossology”, in The Journal of Philology‎^[1], page 60:

     There is no more foolish prejudice than that languages differ merely in sound, and all mean exactly the same thing and are mentally the same: the chrestic identity which enables people to translate from one to the other is by no means a full representation of that full noematic force which is the value of the language as thought; and it is this latter which makes the true soul and specific character of one language as distinguished from another.

   • [1896, William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia‎^[2], page 243:

     chrestic (kres′tik), a. and n. [Gr. χρηστικός, able to use things, < χρηστός, adj. < χρῆσθαι, use.] I. a. referring to skill in the use of implements, tools, and artificial instruments generally, as distinguished from the arts of designing and manufacturing such things. II. n. That department of art and practical science which is concerned with skill in the use of artificial objects.]

   • 1928, University of North Dakota, The School of Education Record of the University of North Dakota, page 130:

     Americans certainly seem to be interested in chrematistic activities and our curricula now contain many more chrestic courses.

   • 1987, J.M. Van Ophuijsen, Hephaestion on Metre‎^[3], page 7:

     […] it is the first part of the 'chrestic' section of the practical half (i. 5/6.21); 'chrestic' is what has reference to the composition of music and is opposed to 'exaggeltic' (ib./6.19-21) which has reference to its production.

   • [2021 September 1, “Right and Wrong”, in The Independent, London, page 37:

     Not all of [Jeremy] Bentham’s neologisms gained currency. Sadly, we have all but lost “catastatico-chrestic physiurgics”.]