cynarctomachy
English
Etymology
Ancient Greek
Noun
cynarctomachy (uncountable)
- (obsolete) bearbaiting with a dog
- "And shall we turn our fangs and claws
- Upon our own selves, without cause?
- That some occult design doth lie
- In bloody cynarctomachy,
- Is plain enough to him that knows
- How Saints lead brothers by the nose."
- Hudibras lines 749 - 754
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Hudibras to this entry?)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 cynarctomachy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)