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‖ pancratium, -ion|pænˈkreɪʃɪəm, -ɪən|
[L. pancratium, a. Gr. παγκράτιον an exercise of all the forces, f. παν- all + κράτος bodily strength, mastery: cf. παγκρατής all-powerful. As a plant-name (see sense 2), in Dioscorides and Pliny.]
1. Gr. Antiq. An athletic contest, combining both wrestling and boxing.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 364 Feats of activity,..not onely in that generall exercise Pancration, wherein hand and foote both is put to the uttermost at once, but also at buffets. Ibid., Another general Pancratium. 1749G. West Odes Pindar, Pancratium (1753) II. 92 An Athlete must borrow many Things from each of those Sciences to render himself eminent in the Pancratium. 1837Wheelwright tr. Aristophanes II. 215 How could one, Arm'd with a breastplate, fight in the pancratium? 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 402 The pancration shall have a counterpart in a combat of the light-armed.
fig.1807Edin. Rev. IX. 395 Epic poetry has been considered by critics as a sort of poetical pancratium.
2. Bot. A genus of bulbous plants of the family Amaryllidaceæ, bearing an umbel of large white flowers terminating a solid scape.
1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. Dec. in Sylva, etc. (1729) 227 Lychnis double white, Matricaria double flo. Olives, Pancration. 1767J. Abercrombie Every Man own Gard. (1803) 47 Gladioluses, pancratiums, fritillaries, crown imperials. 1846S. Lee African Wand. xviii. (1854) 314 Above that exquisite white pancratium.
attrib.1890Pall Mall G. 12 July 5/2 A magnificent pancratium lily. |