chreiachrian.
Obsolete.
Rhetoric. ‘A pregnant sentence..borrowed from some other author, and worked out by certain rules’ (Liddell and Scott).
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et cetera1600
chreia1612
inn-phrase1631
hob-nob1761
phraseograph1847
snapper1857
humilific1892
frame1943
1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. xiii. 172 I haue..begun with Apologues or Fables, or rather with a Chreia.
1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. iv. 11 margin A Chria is a short commemoration, aptly relating the speech or action of some person.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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n.1612- day net
- day nor night
- day nurse
- day nursery
- day of accounting
- day of accounts
- day of action
- day of atonement
- day of doom
- day of essoin
- day of expiation
- day of grace
- day of judgement
- day of man
- day of march
- day of obligation
- day of prefixion
- day of reckoning
- day of redress
- day of remembrance
- day of rest
- day of retribution
- day of return
- day of spurs
- day of the dead