spheristerionn.
rare.
A place for exercise in ball-play. In quot. 1824 figurative.
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1764 R. Adam Ruins Palace Diocletian at Spalatro 11 On the other side of the Cella Media was a Spheristerium.., a room alotted for the different exercises of the ball.
1824 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. II. xvii. 339 What a spheristerion is opened here to the exercise of informers!
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