单词 | palaestrian |
释义 | palaestriann.adj. rare. A. n. A student of the palaestra; a practitioner of wrestling or other athletic exercises. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > wrestling > [noun] > wrestler wrestlerc1050 athlete1585 palaestrian1599 warsler1820 matman1923 chanty wrastler1954 1599 R. Linche Fountaine Anc. Fiction sig. Qiv The wrastlers, called also Palestrians. 1989 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 19 Feb. vi. 1/1 The headlines called her all kinds of things, and she loved it: The Girl of Nerve. The Aerial Sensationalist... She was the Wonder Woman of her day, the prestigious palestrian of an earlier time. = palaestral adj. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [adjective] palaestrala1425 palaestrialc1460 palaestrical1579 athletical1581 athletic1585 agonistical1643 agonistic1656 palaestric1658 athletary1660 palaestrian1828 pan-athletic1897 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > wrestling > [adjective] palaestrala1425 palaestrialc1460 palaestrical1579 palaestric1658 palaestrian1828 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Palestrian, Palestric. 1846 A. Spiers Gen. Eng. & French Dict. 419/3 Palestrian, palæstrian.] This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1599 |
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