Definition of Gymnasic

1. pertaining to gymnasiums [adj] - See also: gymnasiums

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gymnasic

gymbals
gymgoer
gymgoers
gymkhana
gymkhanas
gymless
gymlike
gymmal
gymmals
gymnarthrid
gymnarthrids
gymnasia
gymnasial
gymnasiarch
gymnasiarchs
gymnasic (current term)
gymnasium
gymnasiums
gymnast
gymnastic
gymnastic apparatus
gymnastic exercise
gymnastical
gymnastically
gymnastick
gymnastics
gymnasts
gymnic
gymnics
gymnite

Literary usage of Gymnasic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"... soon does as well as the real-scholar in the laboratory. J'up. Sei. Mo., XXI. 443. gymnasic (jim-nas'ik), a. ..."

2. On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported by Thomas Carlyle (1846)
"In the third year of this gymnasic period. Father Andreas seems to have died : the young Scholar, otherwise so maltreated, saw himself for the first time ..."

3. Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle (1896)
"Over his gymnasic and Academic years the Professor by no means lingers so lyrical and joyful as over his childhood. Green sunny tracts there are still; ..."

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