The corpus record

κατά-χρησις

katachresis · ἡ

excessive use

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Where it lives

Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

κατά-χρησις · kata-chrēsis — LSJ

excessive use, consumption

excessive use or consumption, PTeb. 61 (b).305 (ii B.C.), Gal. 19.679.

II analogical application

analogical application of a word (e.g. γόνυ καλάμου, ὀφθαλμὸς ἀμπέλου), Arist. ap. Cic. Orat. 27.94, Demetr.Lac. Herc. 1014.49, D.H. Comp. 3 (pl.), Quint. 8.6.34, Sch.D.T.p.459 H., etc.: pl., Suid. s.v. Γοργίας; ἐκ -χρήσεως Gal. 6.136.

In the wild

καταχρήσει · katachrēsei Herodotus, Histories 4.118.3 (DIORISIS sentence 4808)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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