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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A student or lover of archery; one who practises archery, or who studies history and archæology of archery.
  2. Same as toxophilitic.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Pertaining to archery
  2. n. Someone keen on or an expert at archery

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A lover of archery; one devoted to archery.

Etymologies

  1. From Toxophilus, the title of a 1535 book by Roger Ascham intended to mean ‘lover of the bow’, from Ancient Greek τοξον (toxon, "bow") + φίλος (philos, "love") + -ite. (Wiktionary)

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