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Webster 1913 Edition
Amphidromical
Amˊphi-drom′ic-al
,Adj.
[Gr.
ἀμφίδρομοσ
running about or around.] Pertaining to an Attic festival at the naming of a child; – so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the hearth and then named it.
Definition 2024
amphidromical
amphidromical
English
Adjective
amphidromical (comparative more amphidromical, superlative most amphidromical)
- Pertaining to the Amphidromia.
- 1658: If any shall doubt why at the Amphidromicall Feasts, on the fifth day after the Childe was born presents were sent from friends, of Polipusses, and Cuttle-fishes? — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 213)