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chrestomathy

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Noun
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chres=tom=a=thy

CIDE DICTIONARY

chrestomathyn. [Gr. ; useful + , , to learn.].
     A selection of passages, with notes, etc., to be used in acquiring a language; as, a Hebrew chrestomathy.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

chrestomathy, n. (pl. -ies) a selection of passages used esp. to help in learning a language.

Etymology
F chrestomathie or Gk khrestomatheia f. khrestos useful + -matheia learning

ROGET THESAURUS

chrestomathy

Language

N language, phraseology, speech, tongue, lingo, vernacular, mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue, household words, King's English, Queen's English, dialect, confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie, pantomime, onomatopoeia, betacism, mimmation, myatism, nunnation, pasigraphy, lexicology, philology, glossology, glottology, linguistics, chrestomathy, paleology, paleography, comparative grammar, literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres, muses, humanities, literae humaniores, republic of letters, dead languages, classics, genius of language, scholarship, lingual, linguistic, dialectic, vernacular, current, bilingual, diglot, hexaglot, polyglot, literary, syllables govern the world.


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