One who contends for the prize in public games. Milton has used Agonistes in this sense, and so called his tragedy, from the similitude of Sampson's exertions, in slaying the Philistines, to prize fighting. In church history, the disciples of Donatus are called agonistics.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
One who contends for the prize in public games.
Pertaining to prize-fighting, contests of strength, or athletic combats.
Alt. of Agonistical
In an agonistic manner; like prize-fighting.
In an agonistic manner.
The science of athletic combats, or contests in public games.
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