panegyris

• panegyry (archaic Egyptological)

From Ancient Greek πανήγυρις (panḗguris), from παν- (pan-, “all”) + ἄγυρις (águris), Aeolic form of ᾰ̓γορᾱ́ (ăgorā́, “assembly”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ger- (“to assemble, gather together”). See panegyric.

panegyris (plural panegyreis)

1. (Ancient Greece) religious festival on a fixed day in honor of a god, often including prayers, games, and panegyrics.
2. (obsolete) A festival; a public assembly.
   • 1735, Samuel Harris, Observations, Critical and Miscellaneous, on Several Remarkable Texts of the Old Testament:

     Will there not open a glorious Scene , when God (to use St. Paul's Words) shall celebrate the grand Panegyris?

• “panegyris”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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