Am'phi-drōm'ie-al, a.

a. [Gr. ἀμφί, around, and δρομικός, good at running; δρόμος, course, race; δραμεῖν, to run.] Pertaining to the ancient Amphidromia, an Attic festival at the naming of a child, so called because the friends of the parents carried the child round the hearth, and then named it.

The amphidromical feasts on the fifth day after the child was born. Browne.