CHRESTOMATHY

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1842 · p. 9

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) According to the etymology, that which it is useful to learn. The Greeks frequently formed commonplace books by collecting the various pa ages to which, in the course of reading, they had aflSxed the mark x (;t?'; ""'■*?)• Hence books of extracts chosen with a view to utility have received this name. [s. 241]