Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Skilful in any or every kind of work.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Skilled in all kinds of work.

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  • adjective Skilled in all kinds of work.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek. See pan- and -urgy.

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Examples

  • Rousseau trembled with fury, and as soon as the transport was over, he wrote an indignant reply, in which he more or less politely bade the panurgic one to attend to his own affairs, and hinted that Grimm was making a tool of him.

    Rousseau Morley, John 1905

  • There were giants in this world, like the panurgic Diderot.

    Rousseau Morley, John 1905

  • There were giants in this world, like the panurgic Diderot.

    Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) John Morley 1880

  • University, -- no less panurgic and less encyclopædic a critic than

    Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. John Morley 1880

  • I guess panurgic, phestus, and gorkypark weren't enough names for you to pretend you have support for your insane conspiracy theories.

    Betanews 2010

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  • apt or ready in all kinds of work

    November 6, 2007

  • This word was chosen as Wordnik word of the day.

    November 11, 2009