单词 | pancratiast |
释义 | pancratiastn. Greek History. A person who competes in a pancratium; a victor of a pancratium. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > other unarmed combat > [noun] > practitioner pancratiast1603 pancratist1775 savateur1865 1603 P. Holland in tr. Plutarch Morals Explan. Words Pancratiast, one that is skilfull and professed in the said Pancration. 1610 G. Marcelline Triumphs King James 1 To plaite Wreathes, Chaplets, and Coronets of honor for this worthy Pancratiaste. 1765 Antiq. in Ann. Reg. 181/1 An Olympian Pancratiast. 1814 Ld. Byron Let. 18 Oct. (1975) IV. 214 Jackson (the Pancratiast) tells me he met with ‘two Mr. Drury's’ to whom he sang several ‘flash’ dithyrambics. 1880 C. Waldstein Pythagoras of Rhegion 15 This statue belongs to the heavier genus of athletes, the boxer or the pancratiast. 1975 T. M. Knox tr. G. W. F. Hegel Aesthetics ii. iii. 735 (note) A ‘cauliflower’ ear is associated with boxers, but the pancratiast boxed as well as wrestled. 1991 Classical Rev. 41 296 The import of the passage is surely that Melissos was unusually small for a pancratiast, yet proved victorious. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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