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Definition of Agonistical
1. Adjective. Striving to overcome in argument. "A dialectical and agonistic approach"
Similar to: Competitive, Competitory
Derivative terms: Combativeness
Definition of Agonistical
1. Adjective. Striving to overcome in argument; combative. ¹
2. Adjective. Struggling to achieve effect; strained and contrived. ¹
3. Adjective. Relating to contests, originally of the ancient Greeks. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agonistical
Literary usage of Agonistical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Recensio synoptica annotationis sacrae, being a critical digest and by Samuel Thomas Bloomfield (1828)
"And, indeed, agonistical and gymnastic metaphors are not unfrequent in this Apostle.
But perhaps it is nearer the truth to suppose that, though the terms ..."
2. Oriental customs: or, An illustration of the Sacred scriptures by an by Samuel Burder (1839)
"agonistical TERMS COMMON WITH ORIENTAL WRITERS. 2 COR. x. 14. ... The word tirt\vm£
seems to be agonistical, and signifies the starting, or watch-word, ..."
3. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1887)
"It was Religion to him both to run and to run lawfully within the white lines
and boundaries of his agonistical race. He was doing, and so doing. ..."
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