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chrestic

chrestic adjective: pertaining to usage.

Adjective

chrestic

  1. Pertaining to usage.
    • 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...1872, Prof. Grote, “On Glossology”, in The Journal of Philology, volume 4, page 60

Words formed from chrestic

Questions about chrestic

What does chrestic mean?
Chrestic means pertaining to usage.
What part of speech is chrestic?
Chrestic is an adjective.

Words near chrestic in the dictionary

  1. chresmologues
  2. chresmology
  3. chresonymies
  4. chresonymy
  5. Chrest
  6. chrestic
  7. chrestomath
  8. chrestomathic
  9. chrestomathical
  10. chrestomathics
  11. chrestomathies

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