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‖ ˈchreia, ˈchria Obs.
[a. Gr. χρεία lit. use, service, f. χράοµαι to use.]
Rhet. ‘A pregnant sentence..borrowed from some other author, and worked out by certain rules’ (Lidd. and Sc.).
1612Brinsley Lud. Lit. 172, I haue..begun with Apologues or Fables, or rather with a Chreia. 1655–60Stanley Hist. Philos. (1701) 139/1 A Chria is a short commemoration, aptly relating the speech or action of some Person. |