pancratical

See pancratium.

• IPA^(key): /pæŋˈkɹætɪkəl/

pancratical (comparative more pancratical, superlative most pancratical)

1. (obsolete) Of or relating to the pancratium; athletic.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     For as relations declare, he was the most pancratical man of Greece, and as Galen reporteth, and Mercurialis in his Gymnastics representeth, he was able to persist erect upon an oiled plank […]

• pancratic

• “pancratical”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.