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duellist, duelist|ˈdjuːəlɪst|
Also 7 dualist.
[f. duel n. + -ist; prob. after F. duelliste (16–17th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. It. duellista.]
One who fights duels, or practises duelling.
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. ii. iv. 33 He fights as you sing pricksong, keeps time, distance, and proportion, he rests his minum, one, two, and the third in your bosom: the very butcher of a silk button, a Dualist, a Dualist. 1616B. Jonson Epigr. i. xlviii, He hath no honour lost, our Due'llists say. 1753Hanway Trav. (1762) II. i. i. 2 Many worthy men have been in the sad case of the surviving duellist. 1815Scott Guy M. xvi, What I have written will not avail..the professed duellist.
fig.1676Boyle Alcali & Acidum vii. Wks. 1772 IV. 291 The Duellists (or the two jarring principles of alkali and acidum). Ibid. passim. 1706in Phillips (ed. Kersey). 1856Froude Hist. Eng. II. xi. 499 The blind wrestling of controversial duellists.
Hence dueˈllistic a., pertaining to a duellist.
1873H. Curwen Hist. Booksellers 147 He escaped all duellistic dangers. 1881World 12 Jan. 6 Mr. Irving's duellistic performance as Fabian dei Franchi. |