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gymnasiarch|dʒɪmˈneɪzɪɑːk|
[ad. L. gymnasiarch-us and gymnasiarch-a, a. Gr. γυµνασίαρχ-ος and γυµνασιάρχ-ης, f. γυµνάσιον gymnasium + -αρχος, -αρχης ruling.]
1. Gr. Antiq. An Athenian official whose duty was to superintend athletic schools and games.
[1579–80North Plutarch (1676) 410 When they had him amongst them, they chose him Gymnasiarchus, to say, a master of exercises of youth.] 1658Phillips, Gymnasiarch (Greek), the chief governour of a Gymnase which is a place for all manner of exercise, both of minde and body. 1673Lady's Call. i. i. §8 [It] was thought so indecent in Carneades..that the Gymnasiarch reproved him for it. 1727Lardner Wks. (1838) I. 196 The Jews refusing to use oil prepared by other people, the gymnasiarchs gave them a certain prescribed piece of money instead of the oil. 1862Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) III. xxviii. 296 To take his seat as gymnasiarch, or director of the public amusements.
b. transf. A leader among athletes.
1825Clias Gymnastics 1 Before he gives his book to the press, this gymnasiarch has manifested a desire to conciliate the suffrages of several learned men. 1826Blackw. Mag. XX. 130/2 Of all modern gymnasiarchs, Captain Clias is facile princeps. 1872Chamb. Jrnl. 30 Mar. 194/2 Joe Rullock, the mighty gymnasiarch.
2. A governor of a school, college, or academy; a head instructor.
1682Wheler Journ. Greece i. 56 Seleucus..was Gymnasiarch, or chief Governour of the Schools. 1772Nugent tr. Hist. Fr. Gerund I. 92 Having been the first member of the celebrated college of St. Froylan..he came in time to be the gymnasiarc or chief tutor. 1836Sir W. Hamilton Discuss., Study Math. (1852) 283 Wolf..as gymnasiarch and professor. 1884Sir A. Grant University Edin. I. ii. 85 The Gymnasiarch is to be learned in Theology.
So gymˈnasiarchy [ad. Gr. γυµνασιαρχί-α], the office or function of gymnasiarch.
1836Lytton Athens (1837) II. 461 The Gymnasiarchy or charge of providing for the expence of the torch race. 1847Grote Greece ii. xi. III. 163 Unpaid functions such as the trierarchy, choregy, gymnasiarchy..were distributed in some way or other between the three classes. |