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Definition of Gymnic
1. a. Athletic; gymnastic.
2. n. Athletic exercise.
Definition of Gymnic
1. Adjective. (rare) Gymnastic. ¹
2. Noun. (context: in the plural now rare) Gymnastics. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gymnic
1. gymnastic [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gymnic
Literary usage of Gymnic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Greek Melic Poets by Herbert Weir Smyth (1900)
"The contests were equestrian and gymnic, in all twelve kinds up to 408. ...
In the classical period the contests were chiefly gymnic, but the race with the ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"848. gymnic (jLm'nik), a. and n. .... from the gymnic school. Where he was daily
exercis'd in arms, Approach'd. ..."
3. The Nine Books of the History of Herodotus: Translated from the Text of by Herodotus, Thomas Gaisford, Peter Edmund Laurent (1846)
"... they open, to the honour of Perseus, a gymnic list for all sorts of ...
they departed so widely from the Egyptian customs as to celebrate gymnic games, ..."
4. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"The games comprised musical, gymnic, and equestrian contests ... The gymnic
contests at Nemea, as regards the subjects of competition, corresponded closely ..."
5. The Spirit of Laws by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu (1900)
"Hence the Greeks must be con- tant employments in the city; and, in Aristotle
observes the best republics gymnic exercises are the most impor- exercised by ..."
6. Lexicon to the English Poetical Works of John Milton by Laura Emma Lockwood (1907)
"698 ; II P. 128 ; L. 93. Gust, ab. keen relish : PL x. 565. gymnic, adj.
gymnic artist, person skilled in the art of gymnastics : SA 1324. ..."
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