Gymnarchus (jimnarkus)

[NL., named in ref. to the absence of anal fins, 2664 gimnasio = Pg. gymnasio = It. ginnasio, the instruction of the mind, as libraries and lecture-rooms, were often combined with it. The gymnasium was distinctively a Greek institution, and never found high favor in Rome, though introduced by some admirers of the Greeks under the late republic and the empire. Hence-2. In modern use, a place where or a building in which athletic exercises are taught and performed. It [Moor fields] was likewise the great gymnasium of our Capital, the resort of wrestlers, boxers, runners, and football players, and the scene of every manly recreation. Pennant, London, p. 346. 3. A school or seminary for the higher branches of literature and science; a school preparatory to the universities, especially in Germany; a cla ical as opposed to a technical school. as opposed