Charites

[ kar-i-teez ]

plural noun

, singular Cha·ris [key, -ris].

1. the ancient Greek name for the Graces.

Example Sentences

In September, Catholic Charites used $476.99 in Neediest Cases money to buy Daysi a new bed to replace the dilapidated one she had been using.

From New York Times

One of the three Graces or Charites; attendant of Venus, 105.

From Project Gutenberg

Same as Graces, or Charites; Venus’ attendants, 105.

From Project Gutenberg

The ancient Chorizontes observed that the messenger of Zeus is Iris in the Iliad, but Hermes in the Odyssey; that the wife of Hephaestus is one of the Charites in the Iliad, but Aphrodite in the Odyssey; that the heroes in the Iliad do not eat fish; that Crete has a hundred cities according to the Iliad, and only ninety according to the Odyssey; that προπάροιθε is used in the Iliad of place, in the Odyssey of time, &c.

From Project Gutenberg

At Orchomenus nightly dances took place, and the festival Charitesia, accompanied by musical contests, was celebrated; in Paros their worship was celebrated without music or garlands, since it was there that Minos, while sacrificing to the Charites, received the news of the death of his son Androgeus; at Messene they were revered together with the Eumenides; at Athens, their rites, kept secret from the profane, were held at the entrance to the Acropolis.

From Project Gutenberg