单词 | circensian |
释义 | circensianadj. Of, pertaining to, or celebrated in the Roman Circus (see circus n.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a public show or spectacle > [adjective] > circus circene1577 circensian1598 circensiala1682 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales xv. xii. 238 That day that the Circensian plaies were represented. 1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1879) I. 152/2 He made vows to the gods..to celebrate the great circensian games to their honour. 1833 T. De Quincey Cæsars in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 56/1 The whole machinery, form and substance, of the Circensian shows. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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