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agonistical

agonistical adjective: agonistic (of or relating to contests that were originally participated in by the Ancient Greeks).

Adjective

agonistical (comparative more agonistical, superlative most agonistical)

  1. (archaic) agonistic (of or relating to contests that were originally participated in by the Ancient Greeks).
    • Three words there are here together, [translated as] to follow after, to attain, to be foremost, which are all Agonistical, referring to the customes of the Graecian exercises in their Olympian, Nemaean, Isthmian, Pythian games, which are often alluded to in these Epistles.1659, Henry Hammond, A Paraphrase and Annotations upon All the books of the New Testament, London: Richard Davis, Romans 9, annotations, page 487

Forms of agonistical

comparativemore agonistical
superlativemost agonistical

Questions about agonistical

What does agonistical mean?
Agonistical means agonistic (of or relating to contests that were originally participated in by the Ancient Greeks).
What part of speech is agonistical?
Agonistical is an adjective.

Words near agonistical in the dictionary

  1. agonistarchs
  2. agonistes
  3. agonistic
  4. agonistic monoclonal antibodies
  5. agonistic monoclonal antibody
  6. agonistical
  7. agonistically
  8. Agonistici
  9. agonistics
  10. agonists
  11. agonization

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