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Webster 1913 Edition
Agonistical
{
Agˊo-nis′tic
,Agˊo-nis′tic-al
, }Adj.
[Gr. [GREEK]. See
Agonism
.] Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural.
As a scholar, he [Dr. Parr] was brilliant, but he consumed his power in
agonistic
displays. De Quincey.