Meanings
nouncynarctomachy (uncountable)
- obsoleteuncountablebearbaiting with a dog
And shall we turn our fangs and claws Upon our own selves, without cause? That some occult design doth lie In bloody cynarctomachy, Is plain enough to him that knows How Saints lead brothers by the nose.
1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC
Origin
From cyno- + Ancient Greek ἄρκτος (árktos) + -machy.
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