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ǁ Xystus. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. ǁ Xystus Pl. xysti. Also 7 zystus, pl. xisti; 8–9 xystos, 9 zystos; 8–9 xystum, pl. xysta (7 erron. xystas). Also in anglicized form xyst. [L. xystus masc., also xystum neut., ad. Gr. ξυστός, prop. sb. use of the masc. of ξυστός adj.: see prec.] Among the ancient Greeks, a long covered portico or court used for athletic exercises; among the ancient Romans, an open colonnade, or walk planted with trees, used for recreation and conversation; hence occas. allusively.

1 1664.  Evelyn, trans. Freart’s Archit., 132. Those large Xystas, Porticos, Atrias and Vestibula of the Greeks and Romans. Ibid. (1696), Lett. to Wotton, 28 Oct. Spacious plots of ground … built about with porticos, xisti, & noble ranges of pillars.

2 1696.  Phillips (ed. 5), Zystus, was a Place where the Wrestlers exercis’d. Ibid. (1706) (ed. Kersey), Xystos, a large Portico or Gallery, where the Greek Wrestlers us’d to practise in Winter-time. Ibid., Xystus or Xystum (among the Romans) an open Walking-Place…; also a Knot-Garden.

3 1721.  (title) The Architecture of A. Palladio … containing A short Treatise of the Five Orders … also The different Construction of Private and Publick Houses, High-ways, Bridges, Market-places, Xystes, and Temples…. Revised … By Giacomo Leoni.

4 1763.  Smollett, Trav., xxx. (1766), II. 102. The Xysta, which were shady walks between two porticos.

5 1823.  P. Nicholson, Pract. Builder, 596. Zystos; among the antients, a portico or aile of unusual length, commonly appropriated to gymnastic exercises.

6 1856.  Macaulay, in Trevelyan, Life & Lett., xiv. (1913), II. 405. [I] directed the workmen to set creepers in my xystus.

7 1871.  Farrar, Witn. Hist., vi. 98. Philosophers who aired their elegant doubts in the shady xystis.

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