A.“χρῖον” Od.4.252, also “χρίεσκε” A.R.4.871: fut. “χρίσω” E.Med.789: aor. “ἔχρι_σα” Od.10.364, etc., Ep. “χρῖσα” Il.16.680, Od.4.49: pf. “κέχρι_κα” LXX 1 Ki.10.1, al.:—Med., fut. “χρίσομαι” Od.6.220: aor. part. χρι_σάμενος ib.96, Hes.Op.523, etc.:—Pass., fut. “χρισθήσομαι” LXXEx.30.32: aor. “ἐχρίσθην” A.Pr.675, Achae.10: pf. “κέχρι_μαι” Hdt.4.189,195, Magnes 3, etc., later “κέχρισμαι” LXX 2 Ki. 5.17: plpf. ἐκέχριστο f. l. in X.Cyr.7.1.2; 3pl. “ἐκέχριντο” Callix.2. [Even in pres. and impf. ι is long, Od.21.179 (ἐπι-χρι_οντες), Il.23.186, S.Tr.675, etc.; χρι^ει only in late Poets, as AP6.275 (Noss.): in fut. and all other tenses ι_ without exception, whence the proper accent. is χρῖσαι, κεχρῖσθαι, χρῖσμα, etc.:—touch the surface of a body slightly, esp. of the human body, graze, hence,
I. rub, anoint with scented unguents or oil, as was done after bathing, freq. in Hom., “λόεον καὶ χρῖον ἐλαίῳ” Od.4.252; “ἔχρισεν λίπ᾽ ἐλαίῳ” 3.466; “λοέσσαι τε χρῖσαί τε” 19.320; of a dead body, “χρῖεν ἐλαίῳ” Il.23.186; anoint a suppliant, Berl.Sitzb.1927.170 (Cyrene); πέπλον χ. rub or infect with poison, S.Tr.675, cf. 689,832 (lyr.): metaph., “ἱμέρῳ χρίσασ᾽ οἰστόν” E.Med.634 (lyr.); “οὐ μέλανι, ἀλλὰ θανάτῳ χ. τὸν κάλαμον” Plu.2.841e:—Med., anoint oneself, Od.6.96; “κάλλεϊ ἀμβροσίῳ οἵῳ . . Κυθέρεια χρίεται” 18.194, cf. Hes.Op.523; “ἐλαίῳ” Gal.6.417; “ἐκ φαρμάκου” Luc. Asin.13: c. acc. rei, ἰοὺς χρίεσθαι anoint (i. e. poison) one's arrows, Od.1.262:—Pass., “χρίεσθαι ὑπὸ τοῦ ἡλίου” Hdt.3.124; βακκάριδι κεχριμένος Magnes l. c.; “συκαμίνῳ τὰς γνάθους κεχριμέναι” Eub.98.3: metaph., “Σοφοκλέους τοῦ μέλιτι κεχριμένου” Ar.Fr.581.
2. in LXX, anoint in token of consecration, “χ. τινὰ εἰς βασιλέα” 4 Ki.9.3; “εἰς ἄρχοντα” 1 Ki.10.1; “εἰς προφήτην” 3 Ki.19.16; also “χ. τινὰ τοῦ βασιλεύειν” Jd.9.15: c. dupl. acc., “χ. τινὰ ἔλαιον” Ep.Heb.1.9.
II. wash with colour, coat, “αἰγέαι κεχριμέναι ἐρευθεδάνῳ” Hdt.4.189; πίσσῃ ib.195, cf. Inscr.Délos442A188 (ii B. C.); “ἀσφάλτῳ” X.Cyr.7.5.22 (Pass.); “στοάν” Supp.Epigr.4.268 (Panamara, ii A. D.):—Med., τὸ σῶμα μίλτῳ χρίονται smear their bodies, Hdt.4.191.
