prytanizev.
/ˈprɪtənʌɪz/, /ˈprɪtn̩ʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈprɪtnˌaɪz/ Ancient Greek History. Now rare.
intransitive. Of a division of the Athenian Council of Five Hundred: to hold the prytany.
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1898 W. S. Ferguson Athenian Secretaries i. 4 We have reasons for believing that at least up to the thirtieth day of the prytany, the lot had not yet been cast to decide upon the next tribe to prytanize.
1937 Hesperia Suppl. 1 211 When the time comes to determine the tribe for the third prytany, one ball is released... It would not be known, before the turn of the crank, that Kekropis was to prytanize third.
1948 Hesperia 17 118 Eight days or so before Akamantis began to prytanize in 302/1 b.c. the Athenian taxiarchs..were in Athens engaged in ‘the preservation of order in the sacred rites of Demeter’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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v.1898- have its end upon
- have its ends upon
- have its moment
- have iwald
- have jam on it
- have joy of
- have kittens
- have known better days
- have law to do
- have left
- have legs
- have liefer
- have light fingers
- have little miss of
- have little price of
- have little price upon
- have little, no scruple
- have livery
- have long hands
- have lot
- have lot and cavel
- have lot and dole
- have many irons in the fire
- have many words
- have marvel