Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A festival; a public meeting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A festival; a public assembly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
festival ; apublic assembly .
Etymologies
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Examples
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If you fall into a crowd, call it a celebration of games, a panegyris, a festival: try to enjoy the festival with other men.
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Suppose that you are at Olympia: imagine it to be a panegyris, where one is calling out one thing, another is doing another thing, and a third is pushing another person: in the baths there is a crowd: and who of us is not pleased with this assembly and leaves it unwillingly, Be not difficult to please nor fastidious about what happens.
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Eft mihi i manum panegyris Calovio die fua nacali fep - lagefima quarca habica acque eo morcuo cy -
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This was at that period the sole actual _panegyris_. [national festivall
Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881
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