amphictyonic
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀμφικτυονικός (Amphiktuonikós). By surface analysis, amphictyon + -ic.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
amphictyonic (not comparable)
- (Ancient Greece) Of or relating to the amphictyons or their League or Council.
- an Amphictyonic town or state
- the Amphictyonic body'
- 1854, William Smith, A History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman ... - Página 50:
- Of the duties of the Amphictyonic Council nothing will give us a better idea than the oath taken by its members. It ran thus “We will not destroy any Amphictyonic town, nor cut it off from running water in war or peace […]
Translations[edit]
relating to the Amphictyons
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References[edit]
“amphictyonic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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