chrestic
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English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]chrestic
- Pertaining to usage.
- 1872, Prof. Grote, “On Glossology”, in The Journal of Philology, volume 4, page 60:
- 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;