chresis, n.Definitions

Chresis is the 'use' of aphrodisia.

Chresis is literally 'use', 'employment', 'function' but suggestive of 'intimacy' or 'acquaintance'.

Chresis is the 'use' of a male boy as a woman (i.e. pederasty), which is recommended to the wise man

Chresis is sexual intercourse (hoi oikos chresis -- literally 'the use of houses')

Chresis is literally the 'use' of sexuality, which often signals the wrong use (i.e. non-procreative and pervaded by desire), which is the result of man's having hardened his heart against God.

Chresis is literally 'use' but, in the context of Aristotle, it points to the idea that the use of things is a mode of practicing and is endowed with an ethical dimension.