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Word Meanings - BATTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Fertile. See Battel, a.

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  • BATTLE
    Fertile. See Battel, a.
  • ENCOUNTERER
    One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist. Atterbury.
  • COMBAT
    To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight. To combat with a blind man I disdain. Milton. After the fall of the republic, the Romans combated only for the choice of masters. Gibbon.
  • CONTESTABLE
    Capable of being contested; debatable.
  • STRUGGLER
    One who struggles.
  • ACTION
    Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of
  • COMBATTANT
    In the position of fighting; -- said of two lions set face to face, each rampant.
  • FIGHTINGLY
    Pugnaciously.
  • CONTESTATION
    1. The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute. "Loverlike contestation." Milton. After years spent in domestic, unsociable contestations, she found means to withdraw. Clarendon. 2. Proof by witness; attestation; testimony. A solemn
  • CONFLICTIVE
    Tending to conflict; conflicting. Sir W. Hamilton.
  • ACTIONABLE
    That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.
  • COMBATABLE
    Such as can be, or is liable to be, combated; as, combatable foes, evils, or arguments.
  • FIGHT
    fechten, Sw. fäkta, Dan. fegte, and perh. to E. fist; cf. L. pugnare 1. To strive or contened for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in
  • COMBATIVENESS
    A cranial development supposed to indicate a combative disposition. (more info) 1. The quality of being combative; propensity to contend or to quarrel.
  • FIGHTWITE
    A mulct or fine imposed on a person for making a fight or quarrel to the disturbance of the peace.
  • CONTENTION
    1. A violent effort or struggle to obtain, or to resist, something; contest; strife. I would my arcontenion. Shak. 2. Strife in words; controversy; altercation quarrel; dispute; as, a bone of contention. Contentions and strivings about the law.
  • COMBATANT
    Contending; disposed to contend. B. Jonson.
  • ACTIONABLY
    In an actionable manner.
  • STRUGGLE
    to flog, Sw. stryka to stroke, to strike, Dan. stryge, G. straucheln 1. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body. 2. To use great efforts; to labor hard; to strive; to contend forcibly; as, to struggle to
  • REENGAGEMENT
    A renewed or repeated engagement.
  • REACTIONIST
    A reactionary. C. Kingsley.
  • MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
    The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon.
  • REDACTION
    The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.
  • CHYLIFACTION
    The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.
  • FACTION
    One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority,
  • DISTRACTION
    1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in
  • EMBATTLEMENT
    1. An intended parapet; a battlement. 2. The fortifying of a building or a wall by means of battlements.
  • REFACTION
    Recompense; atonemet; retribution. Howell.
  • COLLIQUEFACTION
    A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion. The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction. Bacon.
  • DIRECT ACTION
    See BELOW
  • UNDERACTION
    Subordinate action; a minor action incidental or subsidiary to the main story; an episode. The least episodes or underactions . . . are parts necessary or convenient to carry on the main design. Dryden.
  • ABSTRACTION
    The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or
  • SUBTRACTION
    The taking of a lesser number or quantity from a greater of the same kind or denomination; an operation for finding the difference between two numbers or quantities. (more info) 1. The act or operation of subtracting or taking away a part.

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