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单词 pancratiast
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pancratiastn.

Brit. /panˈkreɪʃɪast/, U.S. /pænˈkreɪʃiˌæst/
Forms: 1600s pancratiaste, 1600s– pancratiast.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French pancratiaste; Latin pancratiastēs.
Etymology: < Middle French, French pancratiaste (1555) and its etymon classical Latin pancratiastēs person who competes in a pancratium < ancient Greek παγκρατιαστής < παγκρατιάζειν to practise the pancratium ( < παγκράτιον pancratium n.) + -της, suffix forming agent nouns. Compare Italian pancraziaste (1551).
Greek History.
A person who competes in a pancratium; a victor of a pancratium. Also figurative.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > other unarmed combat > [noun] > practitioner
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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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