gymnasiast (jimnaziast)

[ at a gymnasium or cla ical school, as opposed to one who has attended a technical school. The men who have made Germany great in science, in philosophy, have been as a rule gymnasiasts . The American , VI. 214. We have been told that the gymnasiast soon does as well as the real-scholar in the laboratory. Pop. Sci . Mo., XXI. 443. gymnasic (jim-nas'ik), a . [ -ic .] Of or pertaining to a gymnasium or cla ical school; gymnasial. [Rare.] Over his gymnasic and academic years the Profe or by no means lingers so lyrical and joyful as over his childhood. Carlyle , Sartor Resartus, p. 71. gymnasium (jim-nāʼzi-um), n.; pl. gymnasia, gymnasiums (-a, -umz). [= F. gymnase = Sp. acter. These uses of geometry [accuracy of observation and definitene of imagination) have been strangely neglected by both friends and foes of this intellectual gymnastic. T. Hill, True Order of Studies, p. 28. Before he [the student] can choose and preserve a fitting key of words, he should long have practised the literary scales; and it is only after years of such gymnastic that he can sit down at last, legions of words swarming to his call, dozens of turns of phrase simultaneously bidding for his choice. R. L. Stevens on, A College Magazine, i. 3. A teacher of gymnastics; a gymnast. [Rare.] gymnastical (jim-nas'ti-kal), a. [ Such as with agility and vigour.. are not gymnast i cally composed, nor actively use those parts. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iv. 5.