Obs. [a. Gr. χρεία lit. use, service, f. χράομαι to use.] Rhet. ‘A pregnant sentence … borrowed from some other author, and worked out by certain rules’ (Lidd. and Sc.).
1612. Brinsley, Lud. Lit., 172. I haue … begun with Apologues or Fables, or rather with a Chreia.
1655–60. Stanley, Hist. Philos. (1701), 139/1. A Chria is a short commemoration, aptly relating the speech or action of some Person.
