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Agonistical   Listen
adjective
Agonistical, Agonistic  adj.  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."





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... forasmuch as Artistic Beauty is commonly recognized as among the greatest educational forces now in operation in the Christian world. On this point a decided reaction has taken place within my remembrance. The agonistic or argumentative modes, which were for a long time in the ascendant, and which proceeded by a logical and theological presentation of Christian thought, seem to have spent themselves, insomuch as to be giving way to what may be called the poetical and imaginative forms of ...
— Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. • H. N. Hudson


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