Definition of Agonestic
{ Ag`o*nis"tic (&?;), Ag`o*nis"tic*al (&?;), }
a. [Gr. &?;. See Agonism.] Pertaining to
violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic
feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural.
As a scholar, he [Dr. Parr] was brilliant, but he consumed
his power in agonistic displays.
De Quincey.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Adjective
- Trying to win an argument.
- Struggling to attain effect in an argument.
- Of or relating to contests that were originally participated in by the Ancient Greeks.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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