contestationn.

/kɒntɛˈsteɪʃən/

Etymology: < Latin contestātiōn-em, noun of action < contestārī : see contest v. The senses are partly from Latin, ancient and mediæval, partly from French contestation dispute, contest (late 16th cent. in Littré). Cotgrave, 1611, has ‘A contestation; a protestation, taking or calling to witnesse; also, a contesting, striuing, debating, reasoning, brabling about a matter: also a contestation against; a gainsaying, denying, or waging, of Law.’

†I. Senses relating to adjuration or asseveration.

a. The action of calling or taking to witness, adjuration; solemn appeal or protest. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > request > [noun] > invocation or appeal

bodec1175

stevenc1200

crya1300

askingc1330

prayerc1330

beseeching1340

invocationc1384

billc1386

conjuringa1400

pealc1400

conjurationc1450

adjuration?1473

remonstrance?1473

interpellation1526

contestation1548

address1570

vocation1574

imprecation1585

appellation1587

supplantation1590

advocation1598

application1607

invoking1611

inclamation1613

conjurement1643

bespeaking1661

vocative1747

incalling1850

appeal1859

appealing1876

appealingness1876

rogative1882

cri de cœur1897

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Pref. 4 b With all kyndes of delusion and iuggleyng..of sophisticall learnyng, of holy contestacions.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 56/2 Againe..Iohn spake vnto him and desired hym in like manner and contestation, as before.

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iii. vi. §6. 68 No intreatie, nor contestation would suffice to hold them together.

1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. Acts xxiii. 3 Ananias his insolent and injurious Injunction. St. Paul's zealous Answer and Contestation [‘God shall smite thee’, etc.].

b. In the Gallican liturgy: the prayer immediately preceding the Canon of the Mass.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > parts of service > contestation > [noun]

contestation1728

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Preface to the Mass antiently had, and still has, very different Names in different Churches. In the Gothic, or Gallican Rite, it is call'd Immolation;..among the French, it was call'd Contestation; in the Roman Church, alone, it is call'd Preface.

1863 J. M. Neale Ess. Liturgiol. 75 We now come to..Illations; or, as they have been variously called, Prefaces, Contestations, or Prayers of the Triumphal Hymn.

1880 W. E. Scudamore in W. Smith & S. Cheetham Dict. Christian Antiq. II. 1197/2 The Contestation invariably ended with the Sanctus.

1880 Scudamore in W. Smith & S. Cheetham Dict. Chistian Antiq. II. 1695/1 The Roman words of contestation are, ‘Vere dignum et justum est’ [etc.].

†2.

a. Solemn asseveration, or oath. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [noun] > solemn

oathOE

swarec1200

sermenta1325

jurament1575

asseveration1602

sanction1611

contestation1614

vowa1616

dejeration1626

sweara1643

dejury1683

fetish1705

vum1881

oath-pledge1884

1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket i. 8 Hath hee bound himselfe with the spels of diuellish contestations..not to eat or drinke till he hath killed Paul?

1618 G. Mynshul Ess. Prison 31 Any oath or contestation of the worthiest Gentleman.

†b. Confirmation by oath or testimony, conjoint attestation. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > [noun] > joint

contestation1586

co-attestation1650

society > law > legal document > [noun] > attestation of document > joint attestation

contestation1586

1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 78 Let the gentleman subscribe his name, next after the Bishop..in the contestation of any instrument or solemne acte.

1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy (1647) xli. 291 But this is too known, to need a contestation.

II. Senses relating to controversy or contention.

3. See litis-contestation n.

ΚΠ

1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 469 That after the contestation of the suit, there be no matter of any dilatorie exceptions alledged to hinder the proceedings.

1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) iii. 445 Contestation is when both parties exclaim, ‘Give your attestation.’ It marks the definitive settlement of the issue to be tried.]

4. Disputation or controversy, as between parties at law; verbal contention; keen argumentation.

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

1602 T. North tr. S. Goulart Lives Epaminondas, Philip of Macedon 69 Being wearie with the contestations of certaine pleaders, he [sc. Augustus] went in choler out of his seate.

1657 Earl of Monmouth tr. P. Paruta Politick Disc. 94 They were still at contestation between themselves.

1682 J. Dryden Religio Laici Pref. sig. a3 That Belief was drawn up after a long contestation with Arrius.

1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero (ed. 3) ii. vii. 214 This counsil prevailed after many warm contestations.

1861 Sat. Rev. 21 Sept. 305 One or two of the witnesses speak of the subject of contestation as certain Spiegeln (mirrors) which Guttenberg was desirous of producing.

5. The action of struggling together as adversaries; contention, conflict, contest.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [noun]

i-winc888

wrestlingc890

fightc1000

flitec1000

teenOE

winOE

ungrithlOE

wara1200

cockingc1225

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battlec1375

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sturtc1480

bargain1487

bargaining1489

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wresting1570

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combating1594

yoking1594

bandying1599

tention1602

contrast1609

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contestationa1616

dimication1623

rixation1623

colluctance1625

decertation1635

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contrasto1645

dispute1647

luctation1651

contest1665

stickle1665

contra-colluctation1674

contrasting1688

struggle1706

yed1719

widdle1789

scrambling1792

cut and thrust1846

headbutting1869

push-and-pull1881

contending1882

thrust and parry1889

aggro1973

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. ii. 47 Your Wife and Brother Made warres vpon me, and their contestation Was Theame for you.

1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (iii. 10) 1322 Fire and Water cannot meet without a hissing contestation.

1647 T. May Hist. Parl. iii. iv. 82 The fortune of Warre..had been very various, and daily contestations happened.

1816 F. H. Naylor Hist. Germany I. ii. xv. 716 The few sources of sustenance..became objects of daily contestation.

6. Competition; emulation, rivalry. (Now Scottish)

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [noun]

rivality1528

strife1530

envy1541

emulation1552

contention1576

pinglinga1578

countermatch1581

paragon1590

competency1594

corrivality1598

rivalry1598

concurrence1603

contestation1603

competitiona1608

rivalling1607

concurrency1609

strift1612

corrivalry1614

rivalty1631

contest1648

corrivalty1649

coping1678

co-rivalry1835

rivalism1850

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 332 The king of the Aethiopians is entred into contestation and contention with me, as touching wisedome [ἔχει πρὸς ἐμὲ σοϕίας ἅμιλλαν].

1651 T. Hobbes Philos. Rudim. v. §5. 77 Among [men] there is a contestation of honour and preferment..whence hatred and envy.

1876 J. Grant Hist. Burgh Schools Scotl. ii. vi. 230 Corporations, who [1650–1750] adopted not ‘contestation’ for determining the merits of candidates.

1885 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (at cited word) The appointment was made by public contestation.

7. The contesting or disputing (of a point, claim, etc.). in contestation: in dispute.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > [noun]

mootingOE

disputinga1225

mootc1225

sputingc1250

disputisounc1290

arguingc1385

sputisounc1390

debate1393

determinationc1400

luyte1477

disputation1489

dispicion?1510

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traversing1524

dispicience1531

ruffle1532

debatement1536

argumentationa1538

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pro et contraa1554

canvassing1565

litigation1567

toil1597

discussion1598

tongue-work1598

agitation1600

canvass1611

fence1637

contestation1638

dispute1638

tongue-fence1643

actitation1661

1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants 1. Pref. §41 So farre as concernes the points in contestation.

a1683 A. Sidney Disc. Govt. (1698) iii. §xxxvi. 417 No rule can be so exact, to make provision against all contestations.

1840 J. S. Mill Th. Vision in Diss. & Disc. (1859) II. 84 This apparent paradox was no sooner published than it took its place, almost without contestation, among established opinions.

1868 E. Seyd Bullion 2 There are not many of them open to contestation.

8. An assertion contended for; a contention.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > [noun] > by discourse or argument > that which is contended for in argument

contention1635

contestation1880

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > putting forward for discussion > [noun] > matter for discussion

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conclusion1393

positiona1398

motivec1400

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gainsay1559

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argumenta1568

prop1607

contention1635

corollary1636

hypothesis1669

discursivea1676

contestation1880

submission1884

1880 Fortn. Rev. Apr. 522 The Austrian contestation has never ceased to be that the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina are not ripe for self government.

1884 Law Rep.: Appeal Cases 9 76 The appellant's contestation upon this point is untenable.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	contestation
释义	contestationn. /kɒntɛˈsteɪʃən/ Etymology: < Latin contestātiōn-em, noun of action < contestārī : see contest v. The senses are partly from Latin, ancient and mediæval, partly from French contestation dispute, contest (late 16th cent. in Littré). Cotgrave, 1611, has ‘A contestation; a protestation, taking or calling to witnesse; also, a contesting, striuing, debating, reasoning, brabling about a matter: also a contestation against; a gainsaying, denying, or waging, of Law.’ †I. Senses relating to adjuration or asseveration. 1. a. The action of calling or taking to witness, adjuration; solemn appeal or protest. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > [noun] > invocation or appeal bodec1175 stevenc1200 crya1300 askingc1330 prayerc1330 beseeching1340 invocationc1384 billc1386 conjuringa1400 pealc1400 conjurationc1450 adjuration?1473 remonstrance?1473 interpellation1526 contestation1548 address1570 vocation1574 imprecation1585 appellation1587 supplantation1590 advocation1598 application1607 invoking1611 inclamation1613 conjurement1643 bespeaking1661 vocative1747 incalling1850 appeal1859 appealing1876 appealingness1876 rogative1882 cri de cœur1897 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Pref. 4 b With all kyndes of delusion and iuggleyng..of sophisticall learnyng, of holy contestacions. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 56/2 Againe..Iohn spake vnto him and desired hym in like manner and contestation, as before. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iii. vi. §6. 68 No intreatie, nor contestation would suffice to hold them together. 1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. Acts xxiii. 3 Ananias his insolent and injurious Injunction. St. Paul's zealous Answer and Contestation [‘God shall smite thee’, etc.]. b. In the Gallican liturgy: the prayer immediately preceding the Canon of the Mass. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > parts of service > contestation > [noun] contestation1728 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Preface to the Mass antiently had, and still has, very different Names in different Churches. In the Gothic, or Gallican Rite, it is call'd Immolation;..among the French, it was call'd Contestation; in the Roman Church, alone, it is call'd Preface. 1863 J. M. Neale Ess. Liturgiol. 75 We now come to..Illations; or, as they have been variously called, Prefaces, Contestations, or Prayers of the Triumphal Hymn. 1880 W. E. Scudamore in W. Smith & S. Cheetham Dict. Christian Antiq. II. 1197/2 The Contestation invariably ended with the Sanctus. 1880 Scudamore in W. Smith & S. Cheetham Dict. Chistian Antiq. II. 1695/1 The Roman words of contestation are, ‘Vere dignum et justum est’ [etc.]. †2. a. Solemn asseveration, or oath. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [noun] > solemn oathOE swarec1200 sermenta1325 jurament1575 asseveration1602 sanction1611 contestation1614 vowa1616 dejeration1626 sweara1643 dejury1683 fetish1705 vum1881 oath-pledge1884 1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket i. 8 Hath hee bound himselfe with the spels of diuellish contestations..not to eat or drinke till he hath killed Paul? 1618 G. Mynshul Ess. Prison 31 Any oath or contestation of the worthiest Gentleman. †b. Confirmation by oath or testimony, conjoint attestation. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > [noun] > joint contestation1586 co-attestation1650 society > law > legal document > [noun] > attestation of document > joint attestation contestation1586 1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 78 Let the gentleman subscribe his name, next after the Bishop..in the contestation of any instrument or solemne acte. 1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy (1647) xli. 291 But this is too known, to need a contestation. II. Senses relating to controversy or contention. 3. See litis-contestation n. ΚΠ 1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 469 That after the contestation of the suit, there be no matter of any dilatorie exceptions alledged to hinder the proceedings. 1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) iii. 445 Contestation is when both parties exclaim, ‘Give your attestation.’ It marks the definitive settlement of the issue to be tried.] 4. Disputation or controversy, as between parties at law; verbal contention; keen argumentation. 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 1602 T. North tr. S. Goulart Lives Epaminondas, Philip of Macedon 69 Being wearie with the contestations of certaine pleaders, he [sc. Augustus] went in choler out of his seate. 1657 Earl of Monmouth tr. P. Paruta Politick Disc. 94 They were still at contestation between themselves. 1682 J. Dryden Religio Laici Pref. sig. a3 That Belief was drawn up after a long contestation with Arrius. 1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero (ed. 3) ii. vii. 214 This counsil prevailed after many warm contestations. 1861 Sat. Rev. 21 Sept. 305 One or two of the witnesses speak of the subject of contestation as certain Spiegeln (mirrors) which Guttenberg was desirous of producing. 5. The action of struggling together as adversaries; contention, conflict, contest. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [noun] i-winc888 wrestlingc890 fightc1000 flitec1000 teenOE winOE ungrithlOE wara1200 cockingc1225 strife?c1225 strivingc1275 struta1300 barratc1300 thro1303 battlec1375 contentionc1384 tuggingc1440 militationa1460 sturtc1480 bargain1487 bargaining1489 distrifea1500 concertation1509 hold1523 conflict1531 ruffle1532 tangling1535 scamblingc1538 tuilyie1550 bustling1553 tilt1567 ruffling1570 wresting1570 certationc1572 pinglinga1578 reluctation1593 combating1594 yoking1594 bandying1599 tention1602 contrast1609 colluctation1611 contestationa1616 dimication1623 rixation1623 colluctance1625 decertation1635 conflicting1640 contrasto1645 dispute1647 luctation1651 contest1665 stickle1665 contra-colluctation1674 contrasting1688 struggle1706 yed1719 widdle1789 scrambling1792 cut and thrust1846 headbutting1869 push-and-pull1881 contending1882 thrust and parry1889 aggro1973 a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. ii. 47 Your Wife and Brother Made warres vpon me, and their contestation Was Theame for you. View more context for this quotation 1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (iii. 10) 1322 Fire and Water cannot meet without a hissing contestation. 1647 T. May Hist. Parl. iii. iv. 82 The fortune of Warre..had been very various, and daily contestations happened. 1816 F. H. Naylor Hist. Germany I. ii. xv. 716 The few sources of sustenance..became objects of daily contestation. 6. Competition; emulation, rivalry. (Now Scottish) ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [noun] rivality1528 strife1530 envy1541 emulation1552 contention1576 pinglinga1578 countermatch1581 paragon1590 competency1594 corrivality1598 rivalry1598 concurrence1603 contestation1603 competitiona1608 rivalling1607 concurrency1609 strift1612 corrivalry1614 rivalty1631 contest1648 corrivalty1649 coping1678 co-rivalry1835 rivalism1850 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 332 The king of the Aethiopians is entred into contestation and contention with me, as touching wisedome [ἔχει πρὸς ἐμὲ σοϕίας ἅμιλλαν]. 1651 T. Hobbes Philos. Rudim. v. §5. 77 Among [men] there is a contestation of honour and preferment..whence hatred and envy. 1876 J. Grant Hist. Burgh Schools Scotl. ii. vi. 230 Corporations, who [1650–1750] adopted not ‘contestation’ for determining the merits of candidates. 1885 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (at cited word) The appointment was made by public contestation. 7. The contesting or disputing (of a point, claim, etc.). in contestation: in dispute. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > [noun] mootingOE disputinga1225 mootc1225 sputingc1250 disputisounc1290 arguingc1385 sputisounc1390 debate1393 determinationc1400 luyte1477 disputation1489 dispicion?1510 argumenta1513 plead?a1513 traversing1524 dispicience1531 ruffle1532 debatement1536 argumentationa1538 debating1548 pro et contraa1554 canvassing1565 litigation1567 toil1597 discussion1598 tongue-work1598 agitation1600 canvass1611 fence1637 contestation1638 dispute1638 tongue-fence1643 actitation1661 1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants 1. Pref. §41 So farre as concernes the points in contestation. a1683 A. Sidney Disc. Govt. (1698) iii. §xxxvi. 417 No rule can be so exact, to make provision against all contestations. 1840 J. S. Mill Th. Vision in Diss. & Disc. (1859) II. 84 This apparent paradox was no sooner published than it took its place, almost without contestation, among established opinions. 1868 E. Seyd Bullion 2 There are not many of them open to contestation. 8. An assertion contended for; a contention. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > [noun] > by discourse or argument > that which is contended for in argument contention1635 contestation1880 the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > putting forward for discussion > [noun] > matter for discussion questionc1225 pointc1300 propositiona1382 conclusion1393 positiona1398 motivec1400 move1439 gainsay1559 moot point1563 argumenta1568 prop1607 contention1635 corollary1636 hypothesis1669 discursivea1676 contestation1880 submission1884 1880 Fortn. Rev. Apr. 522 The Austrian contestation has never ceased to be that the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina are not ripe for self government. 1884 Law Rep.: Appeal Cases 9 76 The appellant's contestation upon this point is untenable. 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