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Webster 1913 Edition


Pancratical

{

Pan-crat′ic

,

Pan-crat′ic-al

, }
Adj.
[See
Pancratium
.]
Of or pertaining to the pancratium; athletic.
Sir T. Browne

Definition 2024


pancratical

pancratical

English

Adjective

pancratical (comparative more pancratical, superlative most pancratical)

  1. Of or relating to the pancratium; athletic.
    • Sir Thomas Browne
      For as relations declare, he was the most pancratical man of Greece, and as Galen reporteth, and Mercurialis in his Gymnastics representeth, he was able to persist erect upon an oiled plank []

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