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Agonist   /ˈægənɪst/   Listen
Agonist

noun
1.
The principal character in a work of fiction.  Synonym: protagonist.
2.
Someone involved in a contest or battle (as in an agon).
3.
A muscle that contracts while another relaxes.
4.
(biochemistry) a drug that can combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiological reaction.



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"Agonist" Quotes from Famous Books



... For kisses which her dimples were, In cheeks graved hollow now by care Vanish, and sharply thrusts her chin, And sharp her bones of arm and shin. Reproach she looks, about, above, Denied her light, denied her love, Denied for what she sacrificed, Doomed to be fruitless agonist. (O God, and I must see her fade, Must see and anguish—in my shade!) Nor help nor comfort gat she now From her whose need called forth her vow; For close in arms Queen Kore dwelt In that great tower Aidoneus built To cherish her; deep in his bed, Loved as the Gods love whom they wed; ...
— Helen Redeemed and Other Poems • Maurice Hewlett
... with its militaristic trumpets, its abuse of the brass. One finds oneself choosing even among the acts of "Tristan und Isolde," finding the first far inferior to the poignant, magnificent third. Sometimes, one glimpses a little too long behind his work not the heroic agonist, but the man who loved to languish in mournful salons, attired in ...
— Musical Portraits - Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers • Paul Rosenfeld


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