Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An athletic contest in ancient Greece that involved boxing and wrestling.
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- noun historical An
athletic contest involving bothboxing andwrestling .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Olympiad being that in which Androsthenes, an Arcadian, won his first victory in the pancratium.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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Do you think, fellow citizens, that any man would ever have been willing to train for the pancratium or any other of the harder contests in the Olympic games … if the crown were given, not to the best man, but to the man who had successfully intrigued for it?
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Do you think, fellow citizens, that any man would ever have been willing to train for the pancratium or any other of the harder contests in the Olympic games … if the crown were given, not to the best man, but to the man who had successfully intrigued for it?
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Do you think, fellow citizens, that any man would ever have been willing to train for the pancratium or any other of the harder contests in the Olympic games … if the crown were given, not to the best man, but to the man who had successfully intrigued for it?
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But as in the games they honor those champions who on the same day gain the garland, both in wrestling and in the pancratium, with the name of “Victors and more,” so Cimon, honoring Greece with a sea and land victory on the same day, may claim a certain preeminence among commanders.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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He often appointed prizes, for which not only tragedians and musicians, pipers and harpers, but rhapsodists also, strove to outvie one another; and delighted in all manner of hunting and cudgel-playing, but never gave any encouragement to contests either of boxing or of the pancratium.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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And the same holds in boxing and in the pancratium?
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At least say, that you have just seen Ephudion doing well in the pancratium with Ascondas and, that despite his age and his white hair, he is still robust in loin and arm and flank and that his chest is a very breast-plate.
The Wasps 2000
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Who ever contested at the pancratium with a breast-plate on?
The Wasps 2000
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Pancratiast, competitor in the pancratium, a combined contest which comprised boxing and wrestling.
Meditations Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
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