Crossword clues for isthmian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Isthmian \Isth"mi*an\, a. [L. Isthmius, Gr. ?. See Isthmus.] Of or pertaining to an isthmus, especially to the Isthmus of Corinth, in Greece.
Isthmian games (Gr. Antiq.), one of the four great national festivals of Greece, celebrated on the Isthmus of Corinth in the spring of every alternate year. They consisted of all kinds of athletic sports, wrestling, boxing, racing on foot and in chariots, and also contests in music and poetry. The prize was a garland of pine leaves.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from Latin isthmius, from Greek isthmios, from isthmos (see isthmus).
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to an isthmus, especially to the Isthmus of Corinth, in Greece.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to or forming an isthmus
Wikipedia
Isthmian is the adjective pertaining to an isthmus
It may also refer to:
- Isthmian Games, one of the Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
- Isthmian League, a regional football league covering London and South East England
- Isthmian script, one of the Mesoamerican writing-systems
- Isthmian Steamship Company, a shipping company
Usage examples of "isthmian".
Deliades was comely in a mortal way, but Bellerus, standing on the Isthmian strand, his copper curls lit by the descending sun -- divine!
Australia will colonize the islands to its north and connect by some isthmian umbilicus to Asia.
But the paths across it--those connecting the streams that flow in opposite directions from the continental watersheds--are like isthmian paths between great oceans-- great dry oceans with watercourses through them.
In those precivilized Panama days, the neutrality of the isthmian paths could not be assured, and so they were fortified.
The chief, for whom he had a genuine respect, was there, and he might be of service to him and his son, and then there was the forthcoming spectacle of the Isthmian Games.
Nature herself probably was dreaming of that first maternity when she evolved the Surinam toad of the isthmian countries to the south of here, that fantastic toad which bears its babes through the skin of its back.
Besides the examination of explosives used at the testing station, those for the Reclamation Service, the Isthmian Canal Commission, and other divisions of the Government, are also inspected and analyzed at the explosives laboratory.
At the present time, the Isthmian Canal Commission is probably the largest user of explosives in the world, and samples used in its work are inspected, tested, and analyzed at this laboratory, and at the branch laboratories at Gibbstown and Pompton Lakes, N.
Aside from the usual analysis of explosives for the Isthmian Canal Commission, special tests are made to determine the liability of the explosive to exude nitro-glycerine, and to deteriorate in unfavorable weather conditions.
These investigations have represented an actual saving in the cost of construction on the work of the Isthmian Canal Commission, of the Supervising Architect, and of certain States and cities which have benefited by the information disseminated regarding these constituent materials.
The quantity of cement sampled is sufficient for the tests required under the specifications of the Isthmian Canal Commission, as well as for preliminary tests made by the cement company, and check tests made at the Geological Survey laboratory, at Pittsburg.
For several years the Isthmian Canal Commission has been one of the largest users of explosives in the world, and, in the purchase of the enormous quantities required, it was found necessary to establish a system of careful examination and inspection.
Mississippi Delta, and the continuous labor of developing the more original and still bolder project for an Isthmian ship railway, Mr.
The Isthmian Games started here in the five hundreds, but it looks like the temple appeared in the city before the sports complex was built.
Nero traveled to Greece, and performed on the cithara at the Olympian and Isthmian games.