Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
pancratiast .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An athlete; a gymnast.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
athlete orgymnast inAncient Greece .
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Examples
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In the full august assembly, Nero discovered enthroned, not unmajestic in deportment, yet effeminately chapleted, and holding a lyre: suppose him just returned from Elis, a pancratist, the world's acknowledged champion.
An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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In the full august assembly, Nero discovered enthroned, not unmajestic in deportment, yet effeminately chapleted, and holding a lyre: suppose him just returned from Elis, a pancratist, the world's acknowledged champion.
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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