Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as gymnastic.

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  • adjective Alternative form of gymnastic.

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Examples

  • Socrates: Very good; and now please to tell me what is the excellence of war and peace; as the more musical was the more excellent, or the more gymnastical was the more excellent, tell me, what name do you give to the more excellent in war and peace?

    The First Alcibiades 2006

  • SOCRATES: Very good; and now please to tell me what is the excellence of war and peace; as the more musical was the more excellent, or the more gymnastical was the more excellent, tell me, what name do you give to the more excellent in war and peace?

    Alcibiades I circa 427-347 BC. Spurious and doubtful works Plato

  • The meeting of the two was not marked by the effusion vocal, gymnastical, osculatory and catechetical that distinguishes the greetings of their unprofessional sisters in society.

    The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million O. Henry 1886

  • By 1am, I am pinned on my back with a baby glued to each boob, and the rest of the night passes in fits of light snoozing interrupted by gymnastical gyrations on Wren’s part and fierce nipple-chewing on Robin’s.

    2008 November « A Bird’s Nest 2008

  • By 1am, I am pinned on my back with a baby glued to each boob, and the rest of the night passes in fits of light snoozing interrupted by gymnastical gyrations on Wren’s part and fierce nipple-chewing on Robin’s.

    Babies should come with snooze buttons. « A Bird’s Nest 2008

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