单词 | pancratiastic |
释义 | pancratiasticadj. Greek History. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a pancratiast. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > other unarmed combat > [adjective] > pancratium pancratical1581 pancratiastic1645 pancratic1645 pancratian1810 1645 J. Gower Pyrgomachia sig. F1 The mightie Acts of your Olympick arme, Whose pow'r Pancratiastick all doth charme, Put downe great Hercules. 1749 G. West tr. Pindar Odes Nemean xi. 110 The Wrestler's Chaplet..Mix'd with the great Pancratiastick Crown. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues I. 186 They have at last carried out the pancratiastic art to the very end. 1920 B. B. Rogers tr. Aristophanes Wasps 80 Still you must tell how splendidly, for instance, Ephudion fought the pancratiastic fight With young Ascondas. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1645 |
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