chresticとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

chrestic

1. 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;