scleragogy
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ancient Greek hard + a leading or training.
Noun
[edit]scleragogy (uncountable)
- (obsolete) severe discipline
- 1693, John Hacket, Scrinia Reserata:
- we let others run faster than we , in Temperance , in Chastity , in Scleragogy
References
[edit]- “scleragogy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.