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单词 circensian
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circensianadj.

/səˈsɛnsɪən/
Etymology: < Latin circensis of the circus (ludi circenses, the games in the Circus Maximus at Rome) + -an suffix.
Of, pertaining to, or celebrated in the Roman Circus (see circus n.).
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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.
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