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callisˈthenics, n. pl.
Also calisthenics.
[f. callisthenic a.; cf. gymnastic-s. Mod.F. has callisthenie, repr. a regularly formed Gr. *καλλισθένεια ‘beautiful strength’.]
‘Gymnastic exercises suitable in the physical education of girls’ (Littré); ‘training calculated to develop the beauty of the human figure, and to promote elegant and graceful movement’ (Craig). (Chiefly a term of young ladies' boarding-schools.) Also, transf. and fig. Occas. in sing.
1839F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Residence Georgian Pl. (1863) 234 To follow me through half a day with any species of lively participation in my feelings would be a severe breathless moral calisthenic to most of my friends. 1847in Craig. 1871G. H. Napheys Prev. & Cure Dis. i. vi. 168 Some theory of calisthenics is taught. 1871Daily News 5 Jan., The exercises, perhaps, should be called ‘callisthenics’, rather than gymnastics, as they..consist simply in rhythmical movements with wooden rings and light wands, to the sound of piano music. 1872F. Thomas Dis. Women 57 An instructress or professor of calisthenics. 1946Mezzrow & Wolfe Really the Blues viii. 117 We'd all raise our arms high, like a calisthenics class. 1956M. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) xxiv. 301 The Jazz Dance..captures unerringly the stereotype notion..of frantic, abandoned calisthenics. |