chrestomathy

How To Use chrestomathy In A Sentence

• Meanwhile, I'm enjoying working on Syriac, and trying my hand at not only the Peshitta but also a new chrestomathy i.e. selection of texts published by Gorgias Press, `Enbe men Karmo Suryoyo. You Don't Know The Language Until You Can Say "Fireman"
• The material which eventually made it into Mencken's second chrestomathy was selected, revised, and annotated by Mencken himself.
• The lengthy chrestomathy [5] (more than 40 pages in the recently released trade paper edition) is based on at least two actual reference works and provides not only an understanding of the words, but often their etymology and usages. A Progressive on the Prairie » Book Review: Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh » Print
• The actual chrestomathy of each life castaway, so deft that can pull pull, thin resemble a book thinly, let you place in a certain position arbitrarily in the aperture in a certain space.
• The lengthy chrestomathy (more than 40 pages in the recently released trade paper edition) is based on at least two actual reference works and provides not only an understanding of the words, but often their etymology and usages. Book Review: Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh « A Progressive on the Prairie
• The volume is a chrestomathy (i.e. a selection of readings) "intended primarily for students who have covered the essentials of Syriac morphology and syntax" (p.viii) and as such it makes a logical place to go next when one has completed John Healey's Leshono Suryoyo: First Studies in Syriac. Bunches of Grapes from the Syriac Vineyard: A Review
• No division of literature, perhaps, would serve better as a kind of chrestomathy for illustrating the positions on which the scheme of this series is based. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)
• In those days job that I experience is brought into play, although all previous always lets person dismiss from one's mind hard via nearly half century, having such chrestomathy effect because of it.
• It is the same with the difficult words that sprinkle his prose - 'metaleptic', 'transumptive', 'apotropaic', 'chrestomathy'. Times, Sunday Times
• Another lovely gift from mollpeartree, who discovered both volumes of this chrestomathy sheltering in the dim recesses of the Printer's Row Book Fair one year. Kenneth Hite's Journal