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χρῄζω , Thgn.958, A.Pr.376, Ar.Nu.891 (anap.), Th.3.109, etc.; in Att. hardly found exc. in pres. and impf. (but v. infr. 11): Ep. and Ion. χρηΐζω , as always in Hom., and Hdt.1.41, 5.19, 30, 9.87; written χρηιίζω , SIG57.41 (Milet., v B. C.); also χρεΐζω , Herod.7.64; Dor. χρῄζω SIG56.23 (Argos, v B. C.); also χρήζω ib.1006.3 (Cos, iii B. C.); χρείζω ib.953.27 (Calymna, ii B. C.): sicil. Dor. χρῄσδω Theoc.8.11; Megar.Dor. χρῄδδω Ar.Ach.734: fut.
A.“χρῄσω” Ti.Locr.99a, Ion. “χρηΐσω” Hdt.7.38: aor. Ion. χρηΐσαι prob. Id.5.65; part. χρηΐσας ib.20, 7.38: (χρή):—want, lack, have need of, c. gen., “χρηΐζοντα . . ἰητῆρος” Il.11.835; “εἴρετο . . ὅττευ χρηΐζων ἱκόμην” Od.17.121, cf. 558; “οὐδ᾽ ἐμοῦ διδασκάλου χρῄζεις” A.Pr.376; δύο χρῄσει [μεσοτάτων] Ti.Locr. l. c.: abs. in part. “χρηΐζων” needy, poor, Od.11.340, Hes.Op.351.
2. desire, long for, crave, χρηΐζειν ἀπεόντος ib.367; “τοῦτον ὦν δοκέω . . ποιήσειν ὧν ἂν χρηΐζωμεν” Hdt.5.30; “χρημάτων χ.” Id.9.87; “βορᾶς” A.Ch.530; τοῦ μακροῦ χ. βίου Soph.Aj.473: rarely c. acc., “πᾶν μᾶλλον δοκέων μιν χρηΐσειν ἢ τὸ ἐδεήθη” Hdt.7.38; “ὥστ᾽ ἄλλα χρῄζειν” S.OT595, cf. E.Supp.123; an inf. may freq. be supplied, φράζε . . ὅ τι χρῄζεις (sc. φράζειν) Ar.Nu.359, cf. 453 (both anap.); ἴθ᾽ ὅποι χρῄζεις (sc. ἰέναι) ib.891(anap.), cf. Th.751, A.Pr. 928, S.OT365; τί δῆτα χρῄζεις; ib.622, OC643.
b. c. acc. pers. et inf., ask or desire that one should do a thing, Hdt.1.41, 112, 152, al.; so c. gen. pers. et inf., desire of one to do, Id.5.19,65, 9.55; in Trag., c. inf. only, desire to do a thing, A.Pr.235, 285, al., S.OT 91, E.Hec.347, etc.: rare in Prose, Th.3.109, X.Cyr.1.6.15.
c. c. dupl. gen. pers. et rei, τῶνδε ἐγὼ ὑμέων χρηΐζων συνέλεξα hdt.7.53.
d. χρῄζειν παρά τινος c. inf., Ps.-Hdt.Vit.Hom.17.
3. part. χρῄζων is used abs. for εἰ χρῄζει, if one will, if one chooses, Thgn. 958, A.Ch.340 (anap.); ἄλλα φανεῖ χρῄζων (sc. Ἑρμῆς) if propitious, ib. [815] (lyr.); “ἢν τὸν θεὸν χρῄζοντ᾽ ἔχῃ” E.Supp.597; ποταγγελλέτω ὁ χρῄζων, = ὁ βουλόμενος, IG12(1).677.34 (Ialysus); also “τὸ χρῇζον” your solicitation, E.IA 1017.
II. Pass., χρησθείς is f. l. in S.Ant.24.
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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