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Compete [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To seek, or strive for the same thing as another; to carry on competition or rivalry.

2. Our manufacturers compete with the English in making cotton cloths.

3. To strive or claim to be equal.

4. The sages of antiquity will not dare to compete with the inspired authors.

Compete [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To contend emulously; to seek or strive for the same thing, position, or reward for which another is striving; to contend in rivalry, as for a prize or in business; as, tradesmen compete with one another.

Competed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Compete

Competence [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Competency

Competency [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The state of being competent; fitness; ability; adequacy; power.

2. Property or means sufficient for the necessaries and conveniences of life; sufficiency without excess.

3. Legal capacity or qualifications; fitness; as, the competency of a witness or of a evidence.

4. Right or authority; legal power or capacity to take cognizance of a cause; as, the competence of a judge or court.

Competent [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Suitable; fit; convenient; hence, sufficient, that is, fit for the purpose; adequate; followed by to; as, competent supplies of food and clothing; a competent force; an army conpetent to the preservation of the kingdom or state; a competent knowledge of the world. This word usually implies a moderate supply, a sufficiency without superfluity.

2. Qualified; fit; having legal capacity or power; as a competent judge or court; a competent witness. In a judge or court, it implies right or authority to hear and determine; in a witness, it implies a legal right or capacity to testify.

3. Incident; belonging; having adequate power or right.

4. That is the privilege of the infinite author of things, who never slumbers nor sleeps, but is not competent to any finite being.

5. It is not competent to the defendant to alledge fraud in the plaintiff.

Competent [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Answering to all requirements; adequate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit.

2. Rightfully or properly belonging; incident; -- followed by to.

Competently [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Sufficiently; adequately; suitably; reasonably; as, the fact has been competently proved; a church is competently endowed.

Competently [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a competent manner; adequately; suitably.