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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀμφικτυονικός (Amphiktuonikós). By surface analysis, amphictyon + -ic.
Pronunciation
Adjective
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
relating to the Amphictyons
References
“amphictyonic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.