Word Meanings - AGONISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Contention for a prize; a contest. Blount.

Related words: (words related to AGONISM)

• CONTESTABLE
  Capable of being contested; debatable.
• 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
• CONTENTION
  1. A violent effort or struggle to obtain, or to resist, something; contest; strife. I would my arcontenion. Shak. 2. Strife in words; controversy; altercation quarrel; dispute; as, a bone of contention. Contentions and strivings about the law.
• PRIZER
  One who estimates or sets the value of a thing; an appraiser. Shak.
• CONTESTANT
  One who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another.
• 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
• CONTESTINGLY
  In a contending manner.
• PRIZEMAN
  The winner of a prize.
• PRIZE
  prendre to take, L. prendere, prehendere; in some senses, as 2 , either from, or influenced by, F. prix price. See Prison, Prehensile, 1. That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
• OVERPRIZE
  Toprize excessively; to overvalue. Sir H. Wotton.
• APPRIZER
  A creditor for whom an appraisal is made. Sir W. Scott. (more info) 1. An appraiser.
• INCONTESTED
  Not contested. Addison.
• APPRIZEMENT
  Appraisement.
• OUTPRIZE
  To prize beyong value, or in excess; to exceed in value. Shak.
• FOREPRIZE
  To prize or rate beforehand. Hooker.
• UNCONTESTABLE
  Incontestable.
• REPRIZE
  See SPENSER
• UNDERPRIZE
  To undervalue; to underestimate. Shak.
• DISPRIZE
  To do preciate. Cotton .
• APPRIZE
  To appraise; to value; to appreciate.
• NOBEL PRIZES
  Prizes for the encouragement of men and women who work for the interests of humanity, established by the will of A. B. Nobel (1833- 96), the Swedish inventor of dynamite, who left his entire estate for this purpose. They are awarded yearly for what