Word Meanings - DIGLADIATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Act of digladiating. "Sore digladiations and contest." Evelyn.

DIGLADIATE
To fight like gladiators; to contend fiercely; to dispute violently. Digladiating like Æschines and Demosthenes. Hales.
CONTESTABLE
Capable of being contested; debatable.
CONTEST
To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist; as a claim, by course of law; to controvert. To contest an election. To strive to be elected. To dispute the declared result of an election. Syn. -- To
CONTESTATION
1. The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute. "Loverlike contestation." Milton. After years spent in domestic, unsociable contestations, she found means to withdraw. Clarendon. 2. Proof by witness; attestation; testimony. A solemn
CONTESTANT
One who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another.
CONTESTINGLY
In a contending manner.
DIGLADIATION
Act of digladiating. "Sore digladiations and contest." Evelyn.
INCONTESTED
Not contested. Addison.
UNCONTESTABLE
Incontestable.
INCONTESTABILITY
The quality or state of being incontestable.
INCONTESTABLE
Not contestable; not to be disputed; that cannot be called in question or controverted; incontrovertible; indisputable; as, incontestable evidence, truth, or facts. Locke. Syn. -- Incontrovertible; indisputable; irrefragable; undeniable;