1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. v. sig. P8^v A pleasaunt groue Was shott vp high, full of the stately tree, That dedicated is t'Olympick Ioue.

1600 C. Tourneur Transformed Metamorph. sig. B2^v Th' olimpique Globe is now a hollow ball.

a1657 G. Daniel Poems (1878) II. 35 To scale th^e Olimpicke wall, And deprive the Creator of his praise.

1693 R. Ames Bacchanalian Sessions 8 When no other Name ran throw Jove's Olympic great Hall.

1734 S. Boyse On Mil. Procession of Royal Company of Archers in Transl. & Poems ii. 267 Could..expatiate thro' the boundless Skies, And eternize the great Olympic Scenes.

a1783 H. Brooke Temple of Hymen in Poet. Wks. (1792) IV. 7 You discover Olympic Jove, that thundering lover.

1813 E. Hovell-Thurlow Poems Several Occasions (ed. 2) 148 Glorious Milton..surpass'd his reign In depths of Hell, and in th' Olympick air.

1884 ‘M. Field’ Callirrhoë ii. vii. 64 Her whole religion is an anthology of Olympic scandal.

1920 C. M. Doughty Mansoul iv. 85 Young Socrates, with his father, images wrought; Of the álleged company, of Gréeks' Olympic Gods.

1999 Amer. Hist. Rev. 104 1101 Later Greek civilizations..replaced thse deities with the male-dominated Olympic pantheon.

1597 G. Markham tr. G. Pétau de Maulette Deuoreux xci. 15 That Prince, mee thought, was finely shapt, vpright, Such as was Marops at th'Olympick games.

1617 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Faire Quarrell ii. i When Hercules and thou wert on the Olimpicke mount together, then was wrastling in request.

1637 T. Heywood Pleasant Dialogues & Dramma's 88 He was so good a Patriot, besides strong, And from th'Olympicke wrestling brought along Great honors by his swiftnesse.

1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur ix. 258 Never Epirean or Arabian Steed, Flew o'er the Olimpic Plains with greater Speed.

1719 Visct. Bolingbroke in Swift's Lett. (1766) II. 4 What hackney gladiator can you find, by whom the Olympic crown would be declin'd?

1767 W. Dodd tr. Pindar Odes in Poems 121 The choral hymns, whose varied lays, Sing the olympic victor's praise.

1805 J. Foster Essays II. ii. 132 The ligatures which the olympic pugilists bound on their hands and wrists.

1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VI. l. 193 Dionysodorus, who had gained an Olympic prize.

1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 348 Their life will be blessed as the life of Olympic victors.

1957 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 773/2 The wild olive spray of the Olympic victor.

1991 Hesperia 60 229 Damokrates was [an] Olympic victor in wrestling.

2004 N. Spivey Anc. Olympics (2005) v. 178 Another Athenian aristocrat, Kimon, gained the remarkable distinction of..winning the Olymopic four-horse chariot-race three times.

1905 Olympic Games Athens 3 Pentathlum, consisting of the five following events: 1) Flat race one Olympic stade..2) Broad Jump [etc.].

1914 R. Brooke Let. 5 Dec. (1968) 638 A New Zealand youth..walked 300 miles to the coast, got a boat, and turned up here. He is also an Olympic Swimmer.

1962 Listener 1 Feb. 234/1 A [bridge] match between Italy and the U.S.A. in the Olympic event two years ago.

1968 Mrs. L. B. Johnson Diary 10 Mar. in White House Diary (1970) 637 Lyndon..can break an Olympic record for getting dressed.

2002 Independent 27 Feb. i. 2/7 Britain's all conquering female curlers arrived home yesterday, proudly wearing the Olympic gold medals they won at Salt Lake City.

1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew ii. sig. D3^v Vin. Will you up to the hill top of sports..Dovors Olimpicks or the Cotswold Games. Mer. No, that will be too publique for our Recreation.

1864 Mrs. M. Hall Lives Queens of Eng. 198 The poets and minstrels contended for prizes of skill: at these Eisteddfods, or British Olympics, judges were appointed to decide on their respective merits.

1874 Ladies' Repository Aug. 481/1 The games are the Olympics of the region—wrestling, running, pitching quoits, and rocks, and such like classic reproductions.

1944 Amer. Math. Monthly 51 583 Noteworthy activities of the year were the U.S. War Stamp Drive and the Mathematical Olympics.

1976 New Scientist 28 Oct. 203/2 Any competitor in the gravitational Olympics must be able to pass the three classical tests of relativity that Einstein proposed in 1916.

2001 Xinhua News (Electronic ed.) 31 Dec. The Cultural Olympics, initially envisioned as similar to the ancient Greek poetry and arts contests that were held..in ancient Olympia, were one of Greece's strong points in winning the bid for the 2004 Games.

1657 E. Benlowes Sacred Friendship vi In these Olympicks 't is the maine Contest, Who shall ore-come by loving Most and, Best.

1985 J. Fuller Mass ii. 46 Espionage..had become an end in itself, a strange and ritualized game, an Olympics of deceit.

1993 H. Stern Private Parts vi. 170 My engineer..challenged me to a race to see who could take the fastest whiz. We got a wireless mike and our first Bathroom Olympics were born.

2000 Independent 27 Nov. ii. 5/3 A sleazy account of bedroom Olympics.

1932 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 1 Aug. 14/2 The Olympic flame..was outlined even more sharply against a darkening, sunset sky.

1983 D. A. Noverr Games they Played 293 [He] had been ‘assured’ that ‘nothing would interfere with the peaceful entrance of the Olympic flame into the Stadium’.

2011 Cambr. Evening News (Nexis) 10 Nov. Olympic fever is breaking out across Huntingdonshire after it was revealed that the Olympic flame would pass through Huntingdon and St Ives on its way to the London 2012 games.

1978 Black Belt Nov. 29/1 The 180-pounder's biggest obstacle for Olympic-level play in 1980 could be the calendar.

1991 Washington Flyer Sept. (Insert) 4/2 The uniqueness of the event attracts quality entertainment with Olympic-level competition and world-class teams.

1996 Minx Nov. 8/3 He'll need Olympic-level stamina—not to mention Richard Branson's salary—if he's going to coddle your mollies to perfection.

2000 Time 9 Oct. 37/2 That's Olympic-level manicurist gossip.

1928 Health & Strength Ann. 77 Lifters are urged to maintain themselves in a state of readiness on the three Olympic lifts, viz: ‘Two Hands Clean and Military Press with Barbell’, ‘Two Hands Snatch’, and the ‘Two Hands Clean and Jerk with Barbell’.

1977 D. P. Riley in J. A. Peterson Conditioning for Purpose iv. 49 Having their origins in the Olympic games, there are two Olympic lifts—the clean and jerk..and the snatch... In previous years, a third Olympic lift existed—military press.

2001 Men's Health (Electronic ed.) 1 July Smith uses the snatch, an Olympic lift that develops flexibility and coordination.

1948 Billboard 10 Apr. 31/3 Paul supervised the construction of the four pools, known as the unit system, which included one large bathing and play pool, a long Olympic size pool and two kiddie pools.

1984 A. Maupin Babycakes x. 42 She flung open the doors to reveal an Olympic-size bedroom lined with lighted Lucite boxes.

1991 Skiing Mar. 21/3 This teaser of your imagination has the power to counter the debilitating force of..painful doubts, and Olympic-size crash-and-burn memories.

2010 Frommer's Northern Italy v. 126 The amenities-filled rooms overlook some combination of the gardens and Olympic-size pool, the lagoon, San Giorgio Maggiore, and St. Mark's Square.

1961 Billboard 22 May 44/1 (advt.) 2 Olympic sized pools (1 fresh water, 1 salt water).

1993 Hockey News (Toronto) 5 Feb. 35/4 UAF had met CCHA teams only on its Olympic-sized rink.

2001 Navy News Sept. 33/1 Sharks..are so sensitive they can detect the equivalent of a drop of blood in an Olympic-sized swimming pool.

1966 Times 28 Feb. (Canada Suppl.) p. xiv/5 Canada's 1967 Pan-American Games, which includes Olympic-style amateur wrestling.

1992 Time 17 Feb. 76/2 Finding rhymes for ‘Latvia’ and ‘Cypriot’ must surely qualify as an Olympic-style suicide-mission.

2011 C. Miller Sport Olympic-style Weightlifting i. 23 As an Olympic-style lifter, you probably know that champion Olympic lifters are coordinated, flexible and strong.

1931 Jefferson (Iowa) Herald 16 July 2/2 The olympic torch will blaze forth atop the massive peristyle of the stadium.

1934 Mason City (Iowa) Globe-Gaz. 17 Nov. 12/2 (headline) 2,000 to carry Olympic torch.

1956 Rotarian Feb. 37/2 A trumpet fanfare and the crash of saluting guns will be followed by the arrival in the arena of the last of the 2,750 couriers who will have carried the Olympic Torch 2,750 miles south from Cairns, on the north coast of Queensland.

1992 T. Downing Olympia in R. White Brit. Film Inst. Film Classics (2002) 389 This flame then lit the giant Olympic torch in the stadium which burned throughout the games.

2012 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 27 Oct. 3 [They] were chosen to design the Olympic torch this year.

1931 Pop. Sci. Monthly July 42/2 A group of several hundred houses, a 1200-foot-long dining hall, and a large administration building will be laid out in streets like a city and known as ‘Olympic Village’.

1943 L. P. Lochner What about Germany? xiii. 122 The former Olympic Village, now [a] sports school for army officers.

1972 Guardian 19 Aug. 1/4 It is very important that he doesn't bring any infection that could affect other athletes in the Olympic Village.

2000 Canberra Sunday Times 11 June 35/1 Those..coming from outside of Sydney for the Olympic Games as part of an athlete's family..can't all be accommodated in the Olympic Village.

1839 Atlas 12 Oct. 650/2 The scenery was Olympically accurate, and the costume of 1777..gave quite a new effect to the comedy.

1902 F. C. DeSumichrast tr. T. Gautier Capt. Fracasse in Wks. IX. iv. 169 Laughter..according to Homer is the appanage of the immortal and blessed gods who olympically laugh their fill during the leisure hours of eternity.

1903 E. B. Sherman Taper Lights 14 In the olympically resigned admission of the Concord seer, that love is ‘deciduous’, one catches the same note of disappointment.

1937 V. Williams Curiosity Mr. Treadgold vi. 106 Mr. Treadgold frowned Olympically. ‘If you really desire my assistance, Sir Hector,’ he remarked stiffly, ‘I'd suggest that you keep nothing back.’

1981 A. Momigliano in E. S. Shaffer Compar. Criticism III. 261 Hayden White olympically brushes aside all these questions about evidence.

2008 I. Graham Requirem. Modelling & Specific. Service Oriented Archit. i. 3 These changes took forever and ramped up the cost ‘olympically’.

1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 33 Some oken squadron or other to waft him along Cleopatraean Olimplickly.