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digladiation Now rare or arch.|daɪglædɪˈeɪʃən|
Also 7 de-.
[noun of action f. L. dīgladiārī: see digladiate.]
1. Fighting or fencing with swords; hand-to-hand fight.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. xvii. (Arb.) 52 In those great Amphitheatres were exhibited all manner of other shewes..as their fence playes, or digladiations of naked men. 1650R. Stapylton Strada's Low C. Warres ix. 44 margin, His Digladiations in the night time. 1715tr. Pancirollus' Rerum Mem. II. xx. 393 This manner of Digladiation was very ancient; such was the Skirmish we read of in the poet Horace.
2. fig. Strife or bickering of words; wrangling, contention, disputation.
1590R. Bruce Serm. i. B ij b, Gif they had keeped the Apostles words..all this digladiatioun, strife and contention appearandly had not fallen out. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. i. v. §3 (1622) 34 Their contentions and digladiations grew to be so notorious, as made them all ridiculous. 1692J. Edwards Remarkable Texts 211 A Christian, whose religion forbids all foolish bickerings and degladiations about mean and inconsiderable matters. 1819McCrie Melville II. xi. 304 Scholastic wrangling and digladiation. 1879M. Pattison Milton ix. 107 In these literary digladiations readers are always ready to side with a new writer. |