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gymnasiast|dʒɪmˈneɪzɪæst| [As if ad. Gr. *γυµνασιαστ-ής, f. γυµνάσιον gymnasium: in sense 1, after G. gymnasiast.] 1. A student in a (Continental) gymnasium.
1828Sir W. Napier Penins. War iii. iii. I. 316 Secret societies..under the name of Tugenbunde, Gymnasiasts, and other denominations. 1882Pop. Sci. Monthly XXI. 443 We have been told that the gymnasiast soon does as well as the real-scholar in the laboratory. 1886Athenæum 27 Mar. 433/3 The ‘gymnasiasts’ in Amsterdam..performed the ‘Antigone’ of Sophocles in the original. 2. A gymnast.
1857‘C. Bede’ Verdant Green iii. xii, The vaulting-horse on whose wooden back the gymnasiast sprang at a bound. 1858Mayhew Upper Rhine v. §2 (1860) 265 A few years ago a professional gymnasiast sprang from bank to bank. |