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Webster 1913 Edition

Cynarctomachy

Cynˊarc-tom′a-chy

(s?nˊ?rk-t?m′?-k?)

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Noun.

[Gr. [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK][GREEK], [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK][GREEK], dog + [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK] bear + [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK] fight.]

Bear baiting with a dog.

Hudibras.

Webster 1828 Edition

Cynarctomachy

CYNARCTOMACHY

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Noun.

[Gr., a dog, a bear, a fight.] Bear-baiting with a dog. [A barbarous word.]

Definition 2024

cynarctomachy

cynarctomachy

English

Noun

cynarctomachy ‎(uncountable)

(obsolete) bearbaiting with a dog

"And shall we turn our fangs and claws

Upon our own selves, without cause?

That some occult design doth lie

In bloody cynarctomachy,

Is plain enough to him that knows

How Saints lead brothers by the nose."
Hudibras lines 749 - 754

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