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Full of content. [Obs.] Barrow.

A violent effort or struggle to obtain, or to resist, something; contest; strife. I would my arcontenion. Shak.

Fond of contention; given to angry debate; provoking dispute or contention; quarrelsome. Despotic and contentious temper. Macaulay.

Discontented; dissatisfied. [R.] Shak.

In a contented manner. [Obs.]

The state of being contented or satisfied; content. Contentment without external honor is humility. Grew. Godliness with contentment is great gain. 1 Tim. vi. 6.

See Content, n.

Having the same bounds; terminating at the same time or place; conterminous. Love and life not conterminable. Sir H. Wotton.

Conterminous.

Having the same limits; ending at the same time; conterminous. Lamb.

Having the same bounds; conterminous. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

ame bounds, or limits; bordering upon; contiguous. This conformed so many of them as were conterminous to the colonies and garrisons, to the Roman laws. Sir M. Hale.

Of or belonging to the same country. Howell.

harmonious union. [Obs.] That person of his [George Herbert], which afforded so unusual a contesseration of elegancies. Oley.

To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute. The people . . . contested not what was done. Locke. Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequenty repeated, few more contested than this. J. D. Morell.…

Capable of being contested; debatable.

One who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another.

The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute. "Loverlike contestation." Milton. After years spent in domestic, unsociable contestations, she found means to withdraw. Clarendon.

In a contending manner.

To context. [Obs.] Boyle.