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Webster 1913 Edition

Agonist

Ag′o-nist

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Noun.
[Gr. [GREEK].]
One who contends for the prize in public games.
[R.]

Webster 1828 Edition

Agonist

AG'ONIST

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Noun.
One who contends for the prize in public games. Milton has used Agonistes in this sense, and so called his tragedy, from the similitude of Sampson's exertions, in slaying the Philistines, to prize fighting. In church history, the disciples of Donatus are called agonistics.

Definition 2024

agonist

agonist

English

Noun

agonist ‎(plural agonists)

  1. Someone involved in a contest or battle (as in an agon).
  2. The muscle that contracts while the other relaxes.
    When bending the elbow, the biceps is the agonist.
  3. (biochemistry) A molecule that can combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiological reaction.
    Acetylcholine is an agonist at the a cholinergic receptor.

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀγωνιστής ‎(agōnistḗs, “combatant, champion”)

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