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vils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.

The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate.

attack, or act of hostility; the first act of injury, or first act leading to a war or a controversy; unprovoked attack; assault; as, a war of aggression. "Aggressions of power." Hallam

he state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation.

Inability to swallow.

Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation. Bouvier.

Acknowledgment. [Obs.] Grafton.

Paronomasia; also, alliteration; annomination.

A contest for a prize at the public games.

Ago. [Archaic. & Poet.] Three days agone I fell sick. 1 Sam. xxx. 13.

Not forming an angle. Agonic line (Physics), an imaginary line on the earth's surface passing through those places where the magnetic needle points to the true north; the line of no magnetic variation. There is one such line in the Western hemisphere, and another in the Eastern hemisphere.

Contention for a prize; a contest. [Obs.] Blount.

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

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.

In an agonistic manner.

The science of athletic combats, or contests in public games.

To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish. To smart and agonize at every pore. Pope.

With extreme anguish or desperate struggles.

An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.

Pertaining to the office of an agonothete.