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circensian, a.|səˈsɛnsɪən|
[f. L. circensis of the circus (ludi circenses, the games in the Circus Maximus at Rome) + -an.]
Of, pertaining to, or celebrated in the Roman Circus (see circus).
1598R. Grenewey Tacitus' Ann. xv. xii. (1622) 238 That day that the Circensian plaies were represented. 1770Langhorne Plutarch (1879) I. 152/2 He made vows to the gods..to celebrate the great circensian games to their honour. 1825De Quincey Cæsars Wks. X. 100 The whole machinery, form and substance, of the circensian shows. |