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Adjective: "(obsolete, rare) Athletic"
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1663, Edward Waterhouse, chapter I, in Forteſcutus Illuſtratus; or, A Commentary on that nervous treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, London: Tho. Roycroft for Thomas Dicas, page 7:For the Tutors and Directors of Princes Educations, after they have ſeaſoned their Charges with Letters, and ſecured their Breedings and younger years from the Cenſures of Illiterateneſs, prompt them to Corporal Exerciſes, and athletary Activities , ſuch as are skill in handling the weapon, for defence of their perſons(a very great ornament and ſecurity to any man of power and honour to excel in) not that he ſhall need either to provoke,or be provoked the more by it : […]
1754, William Borlase, “Of Circular Monuments, the Uſe and Deſign of them among the Ancients in foreign Countries, and the Druids in this” (chapter VII), in Observations on the Antiquities Hiſtorical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall, Oxford: W. Jackson, page 196:In theſe ſame Cirques alſo, were perform'd all their Athletary Exerciſes, for which the Corniſh Britans are ſtill ſo remarkable; and when any ſingle combat was to be fought on foot, to decide any rivalry of Strength or Valour, any diſputed Property, or any Accuſation exhibited by Martial Challenge; no place ſo proper as theſe incloſed Cirquesz.