gymnasiarch
Americannoun
noun
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(in ancient Greece) an official who supervised athletic schools and contests
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obsolete the governor or chief tutor of an academy or college
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Etymology
Origin of gymnasiarch
1650–60; < Latin gymnasiarchus master of a gymnasium < Greek gymnasíarchos, equivalent to gymnási ( on ) ( see gymnasium 1) + -archos -arch
Example Sentences
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Antony did not limit to Alexandria his performance of the functions of gymnasiarch.
From Dio's Rome, Volume 3 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus by Herbert Baldwin Foster
There were three classes of officials in the gymnasia; the director or magistrate called the gymnasiarch, the sub-director or gymnast, and the subordinates.
From Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine by James Sands Elliott
He came out in 1866 a clerk and a gymnasiarch rolled in one, and was appointed to the pastoral charge of Hernialde, a cluster of houses near Tolosa.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by John Augustus O'Shea
Let no one think that he was ever consul or imperator, but only gymnasiarch.
From Dio's Rome, Volume 3 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus by Herbert Baldwin Foster
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