Gr. Antiq. [ad. Gr. ἀγωνοθέτης f. ἀγών contest + θέτης a disposer; f. vbl. stem θε- to place. Also used in the Gr. forms.] A superintendent or director of the great public games of Greece.
1626. Cockeram, Agonotheth, a Judge in masteries of actiuity.
1734. trans. Rollin’s Anc. Hist., IV. x. 405. Of which games the Amphictyons were judges and agonothetæ.
1865. Athenæum, No. 1964, 813/1. The agonothet for each year.
1878. N. Amer. Rev., CXXVII. 505. He gravely assumed the titles of archon and agonothetes.
