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Word Meanings - CONTEST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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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 dispute; controvert; debate; litigate; oppose; argue; contend. (more info) litem to introduce a lawsuit by calling witnesses, to bring an 1. To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute. The people . . . contested not what was done. Locke. Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequenty repeated, few more contested than this. J. D. Morell. 2. To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground.

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  • BATTLE
    Fertile. See Battel, a.
  • MAINTAIN
    by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace;
  • STATESMANLIKE
    Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
  • CHANCELLERY
    Chancellorship. Gower.
  • HAZARDIZE
    A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
  • STATEHOOD
    The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
  • DISAGREEABLENESS
    The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
  • ENDORSER
    See INDORSER
  • ENCOUNTERER
    One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist. Atterbury.
  • AFFIRMATIVELY
    In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
  • VENTILATE
    brandish in the air, to fan, to winnow, from ventus wind; akin to E. 1. To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a
  • ASSERT
    self, claim, maintain; ad + serere to join or bind together. See 1. To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate. Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to
  • ALLOWEDLY
    By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
  • ASSERTORY
    Affirming; maintaining. Arguments . . . assertory, not probatory. Jer. Taylor. An assertory, not a promissory, declaration. Bentham. A proposition is assertory, when it enounces what is known as actual. Sir W. Hamilton.
  • COMBAT
    To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight. To combat with a blind man I disdain. Milton. After the fall of the republic, the Romans combated only for the choice of masters. Gibbon.
  • ALLOW
    allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
  • ALLOWER
    1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
  • ARGUE
    1. To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason. I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will. Milton. 2. To contend in argument; to dispute; to reason; -- followed by with; as,
  • CONTESTABLE
    Capable of being contested; debatable.
  • STRUGGLER
    One who struggles.
  • CREBRICOSTATE
    Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
  • DENUNCIATE
    To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. To denunciate this new work. Burke.
  • HALLOW
    To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
  • CALLOW
    1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
  • SAGEBRUSH STATE
    Nevada; -- a nickname.
  • THRYFALLOW
    To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
  • OLD LINE STATE
    Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
  • ENSTATE
    See INSTATE
  • REENGAGEMENT
    A renewed or repeated engagement.
  • SALLOWISH
    Somewhat sallow. Dickens.

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