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panegyris

panegyris noun: religious festival on a fixed day in honor of a god, often including prayers, games, and panegyrics.

Noun

panegyris (plural panegyreis)

  1. (Ancient Greece) religious festival on a fixed day in honor of a god, often including prayers, games, and panegyrics.
  2. (obsolete) A festival; a public assembly.
    • Will there not open a glorious Scene , when God (to use St. Paul's Words) shall celebrate the grand Panegyris?1735, Samuel Harris, Observations, Critical and Miscellaneous, on Several Remarkable Texts of the Old Testament

Forms of panegyris

pluralpanegyreis
alternative formpanegyry

Origin of panegyris

From Ancient Greek πανήγυρις (panḗguris), from παν- (pan-, “all”) + ἄγυρις (águris), Aeolic form of ᾰ̓γορᾱ́ (ăgorā́, “assembly”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ger- (“to assemble, gather together”). See panegyric.

Questions about panegyris

What does panegyris mean?
Panegyris means religious festival on a fixed day in honor of a god, often including prayers, games, and panegyrics.
What part of speech is panegyris?
Panegyris is a noun.
What is the plural of panegyris?
The plural of panegyris is panegyreis.

Words near panegyris in the dictionary

  1. panegyricks
  2. panegyricon
  3. panegyricons
  4. panegyrics
  5. panegyries
  6. panegyris
  7. panegyrise
  8. panegyrised
  9. panegyrises
  10. panegyrising
  11. panegyrist

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