pancratium
noun
(in ancient Greece) an athletic contest combining wrestling and boxing.
pancratic
-
a word derived from
pancratium.
Example Sentences
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And this love must embrace knowledge in all its branches, for Dante is content with nothing less than a pancratic training, and has a scorn of dilettanti, specialists, and quacks.
From Among My Books Second Series by James Russell Lowell
The object glass is three inches; the focal length forty-three inches; and the telescope, when drawn out, with the pancratic eyepiece attached, is about four feet.
From Men of Invention and Industry by Samuel Smiles
