Definitions for pancratia

pancratia pan·cra·ti·um

Spelling: [pan-krey-shee-uh m]
IPA: /pænˈkreɪ ʃi əm/

Pancratia is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 306 anagrams from letters in pancratia (aaacinprt).

Definitions for pancratia

noun

  1. (in ancient Greece) an athletic contest combining wrestling and boxing.

Origin of pancratia

1595-1605; Latin Greek pankrátion all-power exercise (noun use of neuter adj.), equivalent to pan- pan- + krát(os) strength, mastery + -ion, neuter of -ios adj. suffix

Examples for pancratia

Boxing was introduced now and sometimes the pancratium was used.

Pancratiast, competitor in the pancratium, a combined contest which comprised boxing and wrestling.

The pancratium was a contest in which boxing and wrestling were both allowable.

Among this and other plants a lovely white amaryllis, the pancratium Maritimum, with a sweet and powerful perfume, springs up.

As a cut bloom, the Christmas Rose vies with the eucharis and pancratium.

He threw off his cloak and challenged the fellow to a bout of pancratium; otherwise he would let him feel his stick.

In the pancratium it is in our power to desist and not to receive blows.

This difference existed between the wrestling and the pancratium of the Olympic games.

But this is just as if a man after receiving blows should give up the pancratium.

Word Value for pancratia
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