panegyris

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Etymology

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

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.
    • 1735, Samuel Harris, Observations, Critical and Miscellaneous, on Several Remarkable Texts of the Old Testament:
      Will there not open a glorious Scene , when God (to use St. Paul's Words) shall celebrate the grand Panegyris?

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “panegyris”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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