εὐχάριστος, ἐυχαριστον (εὖ and χαρίζομαι), mindful of favors, grateful, thankful: to God, Col_3:15 (Xenophon, Cyril 8, 3, 49; Plutarch; others); pleasing, agreeable (cf. English grateful in its secondary sense): εὐχάριστοι λόγοι, pleasant conversation, Xenophon, Cyril 2, 2, 1; acceptable to others, winning: γυνή εὐχάριστος ἐγείρει ἀνδρί δόξαν, Pro_11:16; liberal, beneficent, Diodorus 18, 28.

εὐχάριστος eucharistos 1x grateful, pleasing; mindful of benefits, thankful, Col_3:15

εὐχάριστος , -ον ( < εὖ , χαρίζομαι ), [in LXX for H2580 , Pro_11:16 * ;] 1. = εὔχαρις , winning, gracious, agreeable (Pr, l.c .). 2. grateful, thankful : Col_3:15 .†

εὐχάριστος [page 267] εὐχάριστος is applied to the beneficent gods in P Par 29 .13 (B.C. 161 0) δι᾽ ὑμᾶς τοὺς εὐχαρίστους θεούς , and in P Lond 879 .11 (B.C. 123) (= III. p. 7) is an epithet of Ptolemy Euergetes II. Πτολεμαίου θεοῦ Εὐεργέτου καὶ Σωτῆρος ἑαυτῶν Εὐχαρίστου : similarly of Ptolemy V. in OGIS 90 .5 (the Rosetta stone B.C. 196), where see the editor s note. Like the subst., it is very common in the inscrr. to denote the gratitude of the people to their benefactors, as Priene 103 .8 ( c. B.C. 100) γεν ]όμενος ὁ δῆμος εὐχάριστος . The way was thus prepared for the Christian use as in Col_3:15 : see further s.v. εὐχαριστία .

εὐχάριστος εὐ-χάριστος, ον [Etym: χαρίζομαι] = εὔχαρις, "winning", Xen. : of things, "agreeable, pleasant, elegant", id=Xen. :—adv., τελευτᾶν τὸν βίον εὐχαρίστως to die "happily", Hdt. "grateful, thankful", Lat. gratus, id=Hdt. , Xen.

εὐχάριστος, -ον (εὖ, χαρίζομαι), [in LXX for חֵן, Pro.11:16 * ;] __1. = εὔχαρις, winning, gracious, agreeable (Pr, l.with). __2. grateful, thankful: Col.3:15.† (AS)