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Meanings of pancratium in English
Martial art in the ancient Greek festivals.
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Examples for "pankration"
Examples for "pankration"
1
The winner's brother Phylakidas, gained the two victories, also in the pankration, which are celebrated in the fourth and fifth Isthmians.
2
Now among the neighbouring peoples sixteen illustrious victories have crowned Aristagoras and his famous clan in the wrestling-match and in the pankration of weighty honour.
3
As to the nature of the Pankration see Dict.
Usage of pancratium in English
1
Athletes struggled in the pancratium at many different points in the city.
2
Pancratiast, competitor in the pancratium, a combined contest which comprised boxing and wrestling.
3
As a cut bloom, the Christmas Rose vies with the eucharis and pancratium.
4
And the same holds in boxing and in the pancratium?
5
Who ever contested at the pancratium with a breast-plate on?
6
And they even forbade the practice of the pancratium as ferocious and needlessly dangerous to life.
7
The forest was impenetrable; but M. Bonpland believed that large clumps of pancratium and other liliaceous plants were concealed in the neighbouring marshes.
8
Instead of the pancratium, let there be contests in which the combatants carry bows and wear light shields and hurl javelins and throw stones.
9
With Drosera two, and with Lupinus, Eucalyptus and Pancratium, several were formed each day.
10
But this is just as if a man after receiving blows should give up the Pancratium.
11
We remarked above all the delicious perfume of the Lirio hermoso,* (* Pancratium undulatum.)
12
The banks, shaded by tufts of Coccoloba barbadensis, and decorated with fine liliaceous plants,* (* Pancratium undulatum, Amaryllis nervosa.)
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Pancratium through the time