The contest for the prize. [Not used.]
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A contest for a prize at the public games.
Agonalia
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AGONALIA, in Roman Antiquity, festivals celebrated on the 9th January, 21st May, and 11th December in each year, in honour of Janus, whom the Romans invoked before undertaking any affair of importance. Ovid, in his Fasti, i. 319-332, mentions various etymologies of the word.
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1. agawn; , [ See ago and Gone .] Ago; past; since.
2. [Nearly obsolete ]
Ago.
Not forming an angle.
Agonic lines
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AGONIC LINES (from ά privative, and γωνία, an angle), the imaginary lines on the earth’s surface where the magnetic needle indicates no declination or deviation from the terrestrial meridian—that is, points to the true north and south. There are two great primary agonic lines, varying from time to time, the courses of which for the epochs 1787 (from Hansteen’s Magnetismus der Erde) and 1840 (by General Sir E. Sabine) are figured in Keith Johnston’s Physical Atlas.
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Contention for a prize.
Contention for a prize; a contest.
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.
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.
1. To write with extreme pain; to suffer violent anguish.
3. To distress with extreme pain; to torture.
With extreme anguish.
Agonotheta
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AGONOTHETA, or Agonothetes (άγων and τ ί θημ ι ), in Grecian Antiquity, was the president or superintendent of the sacred games. At first the person who instituted the games and defrayed the expenses was the Agonothetes; but in the great public games, such as the Olympic, Pythian, &c., these presidents were the representatives of different states, or were chosen from the people in whose country the games were celebrated. They received the several titles of α ί συμvηται, βpaβεvτa ί , άγωvάρχαι, aγωvoδίκaι, αθλoθ∈ται. They were also called ραβδούχοι or ρaβδovoμoι, from the rod or sceptre emblematic of their authority.
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An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.
Pertaining to the office of an agonothete.
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5 KJV and 12 BSB verses contain “Agon”
And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.
Then David asked him, “To whom do you belong, and where are you from?” “I am an Egyptian,” he replied, “the slave of an Amalekite. My master abandoned me three days ago when I fell ill.
And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
So at the day which he appointed he entered in to order this matter: wherefore there was no small agony throughout the whole city.