A.“χραισμήσει” Il.20.296, Ep. inf. “-ησέμεν” 21.316: aor. 1 Ep. 3sg. “χραίσμησε” 16.837; inf. “χραισμῆσαι” 11.120: used by Hom. most freq. in aor. 2, 3sg. “ἔχραισμε” 14.66, Ep. “χραῖσμε” 5.53, 7.144; subj. 3sg. χραίσμῃ, χραίσμῃσι, 1.28, 11.387; 3pl. “χραίσμωσι” 1.566; inf. χραισμεῖν ib.242, al.:—prop. ward off something destructive from one, c. acc. rei et dat. pers., “οὐ κορύνη οἱ ὄλεθρον χραῖσμε σιδηρείη” Il.7.144; “οὐδέ τί οἱ χραισμήσει λυγρὸν ὄλεθρον” 20.296; “τοῖς οὔ τις δύνατο χραισμῆσαι ὄλεθρον Τρώων” 11.120: once c. acc. pers. (supplied), μή νύ τοι οὐ χραίσμωσιν [με] ἆσσον ἰόνθ᾽ keep [me] off from you, 1.566.
2. more freq. c. dat. pers. only, defend, succour (though the notion of warding off injury is always implied), freq. in Il., 1.28, 5.53, al.: c. neut. Adj., χραισμεῖν τι assist, avail at all, 1.242, 21.193, al.; abs., 14.66, 15.652.—Hom. uses χραισμεῖν with negs. expressed or implied (in Il.21.193, εἰ δύναταί τι χραισμεῖν is ironical for οὔτι χ. δύναται), cf. 15.32. In positive clauses first in A.R.2.249, al.; imper. “χραίσμετε” Id.2.218. (Said by Sch. A.R. 2.218 to belong to the dialect of the Clitorians in Arcadia.)
