Word Meanings - ATHLETICISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The practice of engaging in athletic games; athletism.

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• ATHLETICISM
  The practice of engaging in athletic games; athletism.
• ATHLETISM
  The state or practice of an athlete; the characteristics of an athlete.
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• PRACTICED
  1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice.
• GAMESOME
  Gay; sportive; playful; frolicsome; merry. Shak. Gladness of the gamesome crowd. Byron. -- Game"some*ly, adv. -- Game"some*ness, n.
• ENGAGING
  Tending to draw the attention or affections; attractive; as, engaging manners or address. -- En*ga"ging*ly, adv. -- En*ga"ging*ness, n. Engaging and disengaging gear or machinery, that in which, or by means of which, one part is alternately brought
• ENGAGEDNESS
  The state of being deeply interested; earnestness; zeal.
• PRACTICE
  A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. (more info) also, practique, LL. practica, fr. Gr. Practical, and cf. Pratique, 1. Frequently repeated or customary action;
• ENGAGE
  To come into gear with; as, the teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another, or one part of a clutch engages the other part. (more info) Etym: 1. To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as
• ENGAGER
  One who enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety. Several sufficient citizens were engagers. Wood.
• ATHLETICS
  The art of training by athletic exercises; the games and sports of athletes.
• GAMESTER
  1. A merry, frolicsome person. Shak. 2. A person who plays at games; esp., one accustomed to play for a stake; a gambler; one skilled in games. When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shak. 3.
• ENGAGEDLY
  With attachment; with interest; earnestly.
• ENGAGED
  1. Occupied; employed; busy. 2. Pledged; promised; especially, having the affections pledged; promised in marriage; affianced; betrothed. 3. Greatly interested; of awakened zeal; earnest. 4. Involved; esp., involved in a hostile encounter; as,
• ATHLETIC
  1. Of or pertaining to athletes or to the exercises practiced by them; as, athletic games or sports. 2. Befitting an athlete; strong; muscular; robust; vigorous; as, athletic Celts. "Athletic soundness." South. -- Ath*let"ic*al*ly, adv.
• ENGAGEMENT
  An action; a fight; a battle. In hot engagement with the Moors. Dryden. (more info) 1. The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest. 2. The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif., a pledge to take
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• GREENGAGE
  A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage.
• DISENGAGING
  Loosing; setting free; detaching. Disengaging machinery. See under Engaging.
• OLYMPIC GAMES; OLYMPIAN GAMES
  A modified revival of the ancient Olympian games, consisting of international athletic games, races, etc., now held once in four years, the first having been at Athens in 1896.
• PREENGAGEMENT
  Prior engagement, obligation, or attachment, as by contract, promise, or affection. My preëngagements to other themes were not unknown to those for whom I was to write. Boyle.
• MALPRACTICE
  Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results.
• DRENGAGE
  The tenure by which a drench held land. Burrill.
• DISENGAGEMENT
  1. The act of disengaging or setting free, or the state of being disengaged. It is easy to render this disengagement of caloric and light evident to the senses. Transl. of Lavoisier. A disengagement from earthly trammels. Sir W. Jones. 2. Freedom
• DISENGAGED
  Not engaged; free from engagement; at leisure; free from occupation or care; vacant. -- Dis`en*ga"ged*ness, n.