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χρηστήριος , α, ον, also ος, ον A.Eu.241: (χράω (B) A):
A.oracular, prophetic, ἐφετμαί l. c.; “ὄρνιθες” Id.Th.26; “χρηστηρίαν ἐσθῆτα” Id.Ag. 1270; “τρίπους χ.” E.Ion1320; “τοὔνομα” Id.Hel.822; also “Ἄπολλον χρηστήριε” author of oracles, Hdt.6.80, cf. OGI312 (Aegae, ii B. C.).
II. (χράομαι) = χρηστικός, fitted or designed for use, useful, χρηστήρια σκεύη household utensils or furniture, Pl.Com.27 (“τὰ πρὸς θεωρίαν ἢ θυσίαν ς.” Poll.10.11); without σκεύη, Mnemos. 57.208 (Argos, vi B. C.), OGI326.30 (Teos, ii B. C.); “ὅσα σκύτινα τῶν ὅπλων καὶ τῶν χ.” Str.13.1.48, cf. 15.2.6, Nic.Dam.106J.; “τὸν περίβολον καὶ τὰ ἐν αὐτῷ χ.” Expl.Arch.de Délos 11.291, cf. 120, Durrbach Choixd' inscr.de Délos 119 (ii B. C.); “τὰ δώματα καὶ τὰ χ. τῶν ὑδάτων” Supp.Epigr.8.170 (Palestine), cf. PCair.Zen.764.37 (iii B. C.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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