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Athlete. World English Historical Dictionary

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Athlete. 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. 1888, rev. 2024. Athlete [ad. L. āthlēta, ad. Gr. ἀθλητής, n. of agent f. ἀθλέ-ειν to contend for a prize, f. ἆθλος contest, ἆθλον prize. Before c. 1750 always in L. form, which is still occas. used in sense 1.]

1   1.  A competitor in the physical exercises—such as running, leaping, boxing, wrestling—that formed part of the public games in ancient Greece and Rome.

2 1528.  Paynell, Salerne Regim., E iij b. Porke … nourisheth mooste: wherof those that be called athlete [= -æ] haue beste experience.

3 1683.  Cave, Ecclesiastici, 235. A Bishop, not an Athleta or Champion.

4 1741.  P. Delany, David, I. Contents ix. (T.). Dioxippus, the Athenian Athlete.

5 1756.  Miss Talbot, in Mrs. Carter’s Lett. (1809), II. 215. We have looked in Johnson for Athlete, no such word there.

6 1868.  M. Pattison, Academ. Org., § 5. 241. The barbarised athlete of the arena.

7 1877.  Bryant, Ruins Italica, ii. But where the combatant With his bare arms, the strong athleta where?

8   2.  One who by special training and exercise has acquired great physical strength; one whose profession it is to exhibit feats of strength and activity; a physically powerful, robust, vigorous man.

9 1827.  Scott, in Lockhart, lxxiii. (1842), 654. He was a little man, dumpled up together…. Though so little of an athlete, he nevertheless beat off Dr. Wolcott.

10 1881.  Phillipps-Wolley, Sport in Crimea, 280. The jump … was easily within the powers of the most third-rate athlete.

11   3.  fig.

12 1759.  Adam Smith, Mor. Sent., VII. § 2 (1767), 102 (R.). Having opposed to him a vigorous athlete, over whom … the victory was more glorious, and equally certain.

13 1876.  Lowell, Poet. Wks. (1879), 470. The long-proved athletes of debate.

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