Definitions for pancratium

pancratium pan·cra·ti·um

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

Pancratium is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 667 anagrams from letters in pancratium (aacimnprtu).

Definitions for pancratium

noun

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

Origin of pancratium

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 pancratium

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.

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

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

Boxing was introduced now and sometimes the pancratium was used.

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

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

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

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

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