panegyry

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panegyry (plural panegyries)

  1. Obsolete spelling of panegyric
  2. Archaic Egyptological spelling of panegyris
    • 1989. E.A. Wallis Budge, The Rosetta Stone. New York.: Dover Publications, Inc., chapter II, [Special Festivals [...] Ptolemy V,] pg. 55.
      [...] [O]n these days a festival and a panegyry shall be celebrated in the temples of EGYPT each month, and sacrifices and liba- tions, [sic.] and all the other rites and ceremonies which are prescribed shall be duly preformed as on all other festivals.