Palestrical: alternatives and connections

Of or pertaining to Aeolia or Aeolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; aeolic; as, the Aeolian dialect.

Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnat…

English; of or pertaining to England or the English nation; especially, pertaining to, or connected with, the established church of En…

The apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, where one stripped; a dressing room.

A fall or throw on the back in wrestling.

Of or pertaining to bulb; especially, in medicine, pertaining to the bulb of the spinal cord, or medulla oblongata; as, bulbar paralys…

of Cast

Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.

To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door.

Originally, a part of the palestra, or gymnasium among the Greeks; either the place where sand was stored for use in sprinkling the wr…

Of or pertaining to a chariot.

Having the form of, or living in, a cyst; as, the cystic entozoa.

Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool

Of or pertaining to the equator; as, equatorial climates; also, pertaining to an equatorial instrument.

Pertaining to, or derived from, ants; as, formic acid; in an extended sense, pertaining to, or derived from, formic acid; as, formic e…

Pertaining to fulmination; detonating; specifically (Chem.), pertaining to, derived from, or denoting, an acid, so called; as, fulmini…

Pertaining to ice or to its action; consisting of ice; frozen; icy; esp., pertaining to glaciers; as, glacial phenomena.

To seize; to lay fast hold of; to attack at close quarters: as, to grapple an antagonist.