Word Meanings - DIGLADIATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To fight like gladiators; to contend fiercely; to dispute violently. Digladiating like Æschines and Demosthenes. Hales.

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• DIGLADIATE
  To fight like gladiators; to contend fiercely; to dispute violently. Digladiating like Æschines and Demosthenes. Hales.
• FIGHTINGLY
  Pugnaciously.
• DISPUTE
  To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to altercate; to wrangle. (more info) from L. disputare, disputatum; dis- + putare to clean; hence, fig.,
• 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
• FIGHTWITE
  A mulct or fine imposed on a person for making a fight or quarrel to the disturbance of the peace.
• CONTENDER
  One who contends; a contestant.
• DISPUTER
  One who disputes, or who is given to disputes; a controvertist. Where is the disputer of this world 1 Cor. i. 20.
• FIGHTING
  1. Qualified for war; fit for battle. An host of fighting men. 2 Chron. xxvi. 11. 2. Occupied in war; being the scene of a battle; as, a fighting field. Pope. A fighting chance, one dependent upon the issue of a struggle. -- Fighting crab ,
• GLADIATORSHIP
  Conduct, state, or art, of a gladiator.
• CONTENDRESS
  A female contestant.
• CONTEND
  1. To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight. For never two such kingdoms did content Without much fall of blood. Shak. The Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle. Deut.
• VIOLENTLY
  In a violent manner.
• HALESIA
  A genus of American shrubs containing several species, called snowdrop trees, or silver-bell trees. They have showy, white flowers, drooping on slender pedicels.
• DIGLADIATION
  Act of digladiating. "Sore digladiations and contest." Evelyn.
• DISPUTELESS
  Admitting no dispute; incontrovertible. Bailey.
• CONTENDENT
  n antagonist; a contestant. In all notable changes and revolutions the contendents have been still made a prey to the third party. L'Estrange.
• FIGHTER
  One who fights; a combatant; a warrior. Shak.
• NYMPHALES
  An extensive family of butterflies including the nymphs, the satyrs, the monarchs, the heliconias, and others; -- called also brush-footed butterflies.
• FOOTFIGHT
  A conflict by persons on foot; -- distinguished from a fight on horseback. Sir P. Sidney.
• INDISPUTED
  Undisputed.
• CAMPFIGHT
  A duel; the decision of a case by a duel.
• BUSHFIGHTING
  Fighting in the bush, or from behind bushes, trees, or thickets.
• NOLO CONTENDERE
  A plea, by the defendant, in a criminal prosecution, which, without admitting guilt, subjects him to all the consequences of a plea of quilty.
• BUSHFIGHTER
  One accustomed to bushfighting. Parkman.
• SINGHALESE
  See CINGALESE
• CLOSE-FIGHTS
  Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters.
• COCKFIGHTING
  The act or practice of pitting gamecocks to fight.
• HANDYFIGHT
  A fight with the hands; boxing. "Pollux loves handyfights." B. Jonson.