pancratium
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pancratia
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noun
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Origin of pancratium
1595–1605; < Latin < Greek pankrátion all-power exercise (noun use of neuter adj.), equivalent to pan- pan- + krát ( os ) strength, mastery + -ion, neuter of -ios adj. suffix
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The Lacedaemonians forbid their young men to contend in the pancratium, or with the caestus, in which games the defeated party has to acknowledge himself beaten.
From L. Annaeus Seneca on Benefits by Aubrey Stewart
As a cut bloom, the Christmas Rose vies with the eucharis and pancratium.
From Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. by John Wood
Reference is here made by Corvinus to the pancratium, an athletic exercise among the Romans, which combined all personal contests, such as boxing, wrestling, etc.
From De La Salle Fifth Reader by Christian Brothers
And the same holds in boxing and in the pancratium?
From Charmides by Benjamin Jowett
Pancratiast, competitor in the pancratium, a combined contest which comprised boxing and wrestling.
From Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
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