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单词 progymnasma
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progymnasman.

Brit. /ˌprəʊdʒɪmˈnazmə/, U.S. /ˌproʊdʒɪmˈnæzmə/
Inflections: Plural progymnasmata.
Forms: 1500s progimnasma, 1600s– progymnasma.
Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin progymnasma; Greek προγύμνασμα.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin progymnasma (6th cent. in Priscian) or its etymon ancient Greek προγύμνασμα preparatory exercise < προγυμνάζειν to train beforehand ( < προ- pro- prefix2 + γυμνάζειν to train: see gymnasium n.) + -μα (see -oma comb. form).Not fully naturalized in English.
A preparatory or preliminary exercise or study.Now chiefly with reference to classical history and literature.
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1563 R. Reynolds Foundacion of Rhetorike f. iiijv Therefore I title this booke, to bee the foundacion of Rhetorike, the exercises being Progimnasmata.
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe Contents sig. h3 A Progyymnasma,or Prælusory Attempt, towards the proving of a God from his Idea, as including Necessary Existence.
1783 T. Wilson Archæol. Dict. (at cited word) Progymnasmata, certain preparatory exercises performed by all those who offered themselves to contend in the Olympic games.
1875 Ladies' Repository Sept. 221 The classes are properly seated. The Progymnasmata, or preparatory exercises, begin. They consist in narrating, by the younger students, Æsop's smaller fables.
1884 Times 31 July 6/2 The sciences are introductory, not only as a preparatory discipline, as progymnasmata, but as being the substance and body of which philosophy is the spirit and the animating soul.
1958 R. R. Bolgar Classical Heritage & its Beneficiaries i. 38 Rhetorical training began by careful exercises in certain types of expression, which received the name of Progymnasmata.
1997 Rom. Stud. 87 86 The poem is based, he suggests, on the rhetorical progymnasma devoted to the criticism of legislation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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