Meanings
adjective
- Pertaining to usage.
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There is no more foolish prejudice than that languages differ merely in sound, and all mean exactly the same thing and are mentally the same: the chrestic identity which enables people to translate from one to the other is by no means a full representation of that full noematic force which is the value of the language as thought;
1872, Prof. Grote, “On Glossology”, in The Journal of Philology, volume 4, page 60
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chrestic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chrestic
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“chrestic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chrestic. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “chrestic,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chrestic.
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