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(Northern England, Scotland) Alternative form of aboon [(Scotland, Britain, Cheshire dialect) Above.]
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(archaic, poetic) The innermost sanctum of a temple, in which oracles are announced.
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(Ancient Greece) One who trained persons to compete in public games and contests.
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(historical) An officer who presided over the great public games in Ancient Greece.
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A marketplace, especially in Classical Greece.
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(historical) An official responsible for training and anointing athletes for the games.
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An official responsible for maintaining order at the ancient Olympic Games.
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Alternative form of alytarch [An official responsible for maintaining order at the ancient Olympic Games.]
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Of or relating to Amyraldism.
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(historical) A palace that only hierophants were permitted to enter as part of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
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In the style of arabesque art or architecture.
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(historical) An agonothete of the Pythian games at Athens.
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Of or relating to Barbary.
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Pertaining to Bardaisan or his teachings.
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A follower of the teachings of Bardaisan; Bardaisanite.
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In ancient Greece and Egypt, a person who was able to pace out long distances with great accuracy.
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Title of the chief officers of the Boeotian Confederacy.
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(historical) A council of citizens in Ancient Greece
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(architecture, historical) A building in Ancient Greece, housing the boule (council of citizens), where public affairs were discussed.
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(Ancient Greece) counsellor
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Enthusiasm for the Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759–1796).
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One who celebrates Burns night.
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(historical) A young boy in the Russian Empire who was taken to a special school to be trained for future compulsory military service.
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Of or relating to King Charles I, Charles II, or Charles III.
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(historical, Ancient Greece) A form of Athenian colony in the time of Ancient Greece, under which the settlers or cleruchs retained their citizenship, and were assigned plots, or kleroi, of agricultural land, while the community remained a political dependency of Athens.
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A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome and the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
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(historical) Alternative form of county palatine [(historical) A county, usually a marchland, whose ruler was granted near-royal authority within its area while still owing allegiance to the realm's king or emperor.]
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(US) Alternative spelling of daedal
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An international drama festival held every two or three years.
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(historical) A member of the same deme; a member of the same township in Attica in Greece of the Classical period.
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(historical, Ancient Greece) The title of a magistrate in a number of states of Ancient Greece, and in the city states (poleis) of the Achaean League.
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(historical, ancient Greek drama) An actor playing a role (potentially all roles) requiring a second actor to be present on the stage, opposite the protagonist.
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Alternative letter-case form of Diadochi [(historical) The rival generals of Alexander the Great who fought for control over his empire after his death in 323 BCE.]
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(historical) A juror in ancient Athens.
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(historical) A long-distance race in the ancient Olympic Games.
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Alternative form of Dunker [One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers.]
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Alternative form of gauchesque [Of or relating to the literary style associated with the gauchos.]
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(historical, Ancient Greece) magistrates in Sparta who, with the ephori and kings, constituted the supreme civil authority
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The Glastonbury Festival.
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(US) The activities of college fraternities and sororities.
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(historical) An Athenian officer who superintended the gymnasia and paid for the oil and other necessities.
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(historical) An Ancient Athenian civil servant whose job was to apply sumptuary laws and ensure adult women behaved morally.
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Initialism of his apostolic majesty, the title given to a number of historical kings of Hungary.
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Alternative letter-case form of Herculian
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Pertaining to the Greek god Hermes.
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(historical, Ancient Greece) The sacred secretary or recorder sent by each state belonging to the Amphictyonic Council, along with the deputy or minister.
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(Ancient Greek historical, specifically Athenian democracy) A device used in sortition.
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Relating to Lupercal or the Lupercalia.
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A comedy by Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War by denying men sex.
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Of, or pertaining to, a marabout.
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Of or relating to Mary, Queen of Scots.
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(art, architecture) arabesque
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(historical) The name of a citizen of Ancient Rome, designating them as a member of a gens.
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An athlete or gymnast in Ancient Greece.
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The circular Roman temple dedicated to all the gods in 27 BCE in Rome, rebuilt c. 125 CE and later consecrated as church.
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(figuratively) The home of poetry, literature, and learning.
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Relating to the penetralia.
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Of or relating to Konrad Peutinger, German humanist and antiquarian of the 15th and 16th century; applied to the Tabula Peutingeriana, a map of the road network in the Roman Empire, which was bequeathed to him in 1508.
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Any of the discourses of Demosthenes against Philip II of Macedon, defending the liberty of Athens.
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(historical) An Athenian hipparch, head of an Athenian clan in battle.
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(historical, Ancient Rome) The tract of land denoting the formal, sacral ambit of a Roman city.
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(historical) In Ancient Greece, an arrangement whereby a citizen (chosen by the city) hosted foreign ambassadors at his own expense, in return for honorary titles from the state.
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(historical, Ancient Greece) A deputy of a state at the Amphictyonic council.
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Alternative form of quango [(UK, government) An organization that, although financed by a government, acts independently of it.]
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Alternative letter-case form of Romanesque [Somewhat resembling the Roman; applied sometimes to the debased style of the later Roman Empire, but especially to the more developed art and architecture prevailing from the 8th century to the 12th.]
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Of or relating to a sachem.
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(historical) An official in charge of a granary in Ancient Greece.
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A person belonging to the ancient culture of Subartu.
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One of the chief magistrates who ruled ancient Carthage.
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(historical, Ancient Greece) The master of a feast.
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(historical) In Ancient Greece, a common meal shared by men and youths in social or religious groups.
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(historical, Ancient Greece) A junior archon in Ancient Greece.
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(historical) The lowest social class of citizens in ancient Athens.
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(Ancient Greece) The leader of a thiasus.
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(historical, Ancient Greece) One of the rowers on the topmost of the three benches in a trireme.
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Like Thraso (a character in the play Eunuchus by Terence); boastful, bragging, vainglorious.
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(historical) Of or pertaining to the Vehm, a Westphalian "proto-vigilante" tribunal system during the Middle Ages.
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Alternative form of vouvoy [(rare) To address (someone) in French using the formal second-person pronoun vous.]
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One who attends Xavier University, Ohio, USA.
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The officer in charge of a xystus in Ancient Greece.
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