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Definition of Pancratium
1. n. An athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.
Definition of Pancratium
1. [n -TIA or -TIUMS]
Medical Definition of Pancratium
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1. An athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pancratium
Literary usage of Pancratium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"The pancratium was one of the games or gymnastic contests which were exhibited
... 7> At Sparta the regular pancratium was forbidden, but the name was there ..."
2. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians by Charles Rollin (1869)
"THE pancratium was so called from two Greek words,2 which signify that the whole
force of the body was necessary for succeeding in it. ..."
3. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed by John Sims (1804)
"Juss. Specific Character and Synonyms. pancratium illyricum ... Hort. Kew. i.
411. Mart. Mill. Dift. Willd. Sp. PI. ap 45. pancratium ..."
4. Odes of Pindar: With Several Other Pieces in Prose and Verse, Translated by Pindar (1753)
"[z] Anthol. L. ii, ci Ep. i. SECTION XI. Of the pancratium. ... among the
Grammarians, " concerning the pancratium, who cannot agree what " Sort of an ..."
5. Journal of Science and the Arts by Royal Institution of Great Britain (1817)
"Narcissus odorus 157, Narcissus odorus. BM 78. pancratium ... pancratium patens.
Redoute at the end of article 414. In the Hortus Kewensis the syno ..."
6. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"THE pancratium. consequences were disfigured ears, broken noses, ... Wrestling and
boxing were combined in the event called the pancratium. ..."
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