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pugilistic, a. (n.)|pjuːdʒɪˈlɪstɪk|
[f. prec. + -ic.]
a. Of or pertaining to pugilists or pugilism.
1789Loiterer 27 June 4 A tolerable Proficient in pugillistic Science. a1790J. H. Beattie Dial. of Dead iii, in J. Beattie Minstrel (1799) II. 195 Some learned innovator..clapping to it [sc. Latin pugil] part of a Greek termination, he made it pugilist; which..gave rise to the adjectives Pugilistic and Pugilistical, as in this example,..‘a..pavilion at Newmarket for Pugilistical exhibitions’. 1811Sporting Mag. XXXVII. 122 He reached the summit of pugilistic fame. 1855Thackeray Newcomes iv, He had been engaged..in a pugilistic encounter.
b. as n. A pugilist. nonce-use.
1827Southey Let. to G. C. Beaford 10 June, What? will-we, nill-we, are we thrust Among the Calvinistics—The covenanted sons of schism, Rebellion's pugilistics.
So pugiˈlistical a. rare; hence pugiˈlistically adv., in a pugilistic manner.
1840Hood Kilmansegg, Her Misery xvii, Pugilistical knocks, And fighting cocks. 1847Lytton Lucretia ii. Prol. (1855) 142 Sure that it was a proper thing to resent pugilistically so discourteous a monosyllable. 1895Chamb. Jrnl. XII. 758/1 They were most pugilistically inclined. |