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‖ palæstra, palestra Gr. Antiq.|pəˈliːstrə, pəˈlɛstrə|
Also 5–6 pal(l)estre, palastre, palester, palustre.
[a. L. palæstra, a. Gr. παλαίστρα, f. παλαί-ειν to wrestle; in form palestre, a. F. palestre (12th c. in Littré).]
A place devoted to the public teaching and practice of wrestling and other athletic exercises; a wrestling-school, gymnasium: a. In Grecian antiquity.
1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy ii. xi, In Martys honour they were dedicate And in palastre on wakes on the nyght. 1580Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 447 To wrestle in the games of Olympia, or to fight at Barriers in Palestra. 1684Bowles tr. Theocritus in Dryden's Misc. i. 243 To morrow I'll to the Palæstra go, And tell him he's unkind to use me so. 1776R. Chandler Trav. Greece xxiii. 112 Socrates passing from the Academy to the Lyceum..discovers..an inclosure..which was a palæstra or place for exercises lately built. 1839Thirlwall Greece lvi. VII. 143 Among his monuments were an arsenal,..a gymnasium, a palæstra, a stadium.
b. In transferred use; often put for the practice of wrestling or athletics; also fig.
14..Lydg. Balade Commend. our Lady 69 Laureat crowne..To hem that putte hem in palestre for thy sake. 14..Circumsision in Tundale's Vis. (1843) 96 Myghty champyons With won pallestre thorow hor hee renown. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iii. x. 86 The Palester of the Athletes, which is..the wrestling. 1781Cowper Conversation 842 Learned at the bar, in the palæstra bold. 1840Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) V. 52 When the conduct of criminal justice is but a palæstra or course of exercise, to be turned on occasion against perhaps the most deserving members of the community. |