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Definition of Olympiads
1. olympiad [n] - See also: olympiad
Lexicographical Neighbors of Olympiads
Literary usage of Olympiads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology by Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England), Walter L. Nash (1873)
"As regards the olympiads themselves, authentic lists are extant with the names of
... In the various attempts to adjust the olympiads to the Years of Rome, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"These olympiads the Eleans Tl.ed tra\vfi-ría¡<!, as celebrated contrary to •'-- (Paus.
vi. 22, §2; 4, § 2. ... Two olympiads after, a tenth judge was added. ..."
3. The Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and by Humphrey Prideaux (1845)
"... there will be hereafter an occasion fully to treat, in a place more proper
for it. their olympiads on the first full moon after the 27th day of our June ..."
4. A New Analysis of Chronology and Geography, History and Prophecy: In which by William Hales (1830)
"But 139 olympiads and two years over make 558 years, which added to BC 218, give
BC 776 for the date of the ... Era of the olympiads 1014—AD 238=BC 776. 2. ..."
5. Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy by Jacques Ozanam, Jean Etienne Montucla (1814)
"To convert years of the olympiads into years of the Christian ... To solve this
problem, subtract unit)' from the number of the olympiads, and multiply the ..."
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