单词 | digladiation |
释义 | digladiationn. Now rare or archaic. 1. Fighting or fencing with swords; hand-to-hand fight. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > [noun] buckler-playing1468 fence1533 defence1549 noble science1549 buckler-play1575 fencing1581 digladiation1589 sword-play1627 escrime1652 the (noble, also manly) art of self-defence1724 science1729 swordmanship1781 swordsmanship1851 swording1891 sword-work1913 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xvii. 29 In those great Amphitheaters, were exhibited all maner of other shewes..as their fence playes, or digladiations of naked men. 1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico ix. 44 (margin) His Digladiations in the night time. 1715 tr. G. Panciroli Hist. Memorable Things Lost II. xx. 393 This manner of Digladiation was very ancient; such was the Skirmish we read of in the poet Horace. 2. figurative. Strife or bickering of words; wrangling, contention, disputation. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > [noun] pleac1275 distancec1325 stance14.. in controversyc1432 disceptation1447 disputation1489 disception1492 concertation1509 controversity1528 contending1561 fending and proving1583 digladiation?1591 bandying1599 contestation1602 controverting1610 wrangling1612 contesting1616 rixation1623 contestion1632 controversarya1635 contest1642 vitilitigation1647 ergoteering1687 sparring1755 hash1789 controversying1865 argle-bargle1872 wringle-wrangle1882 argy-bargy1887 polemicizing1948 va-et-vient1959 ?1591 R. Bruce Serm. Sacrament i. sig. B2v Gif they had keeped the Apostles words..all this digladiatioun, strife and contention, appearandly had not fallen out. a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) i. v. §3. 34 Their contentions and digladiations grew to be so notorious, as made them all ridiculous. 1692 J. Edwards Farther Enq. Old & New Test. 211 A Christian, whose religion forbids all foolish bickerings and degladiations about mean and inconsiderable matters. 1819 T. McCrie Life Melville II. xi. 304 Scholastic wrangling and digladiation. 1879 M. Pattison Milton ix. 107 In these literary digladiations readers are always ready to side with a new writer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1589 |
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