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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.

The quality or state of being incontestable.

Not contestable; not to be disputed; that cannot be called in question or controverted; incontrovertible; indisputable; as, incontestable evidence, truth, or facts. Locke.

Not contested. Addison.

Incontestable.

duct of; as, to administer the government or the state. For forms of government let fools contest: Whate'er is best administered is best. Pope.

A contest for a prize at the public games.

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

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.

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

Violent contest or striving. The world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations. Macaulay.

m contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest. "Stormy altercations." Macaulay.

able; as, an amicable disposition, or arrangement. That which was most remarkable in this contest was . . . the amicable manner in which it was managed. Prideoux. Amicable action (Law.), an action commenced and prosecuted by amicable consent of the parties, for the purpose of obtaining a decision of the court on some m…

Contest; opposition; antagonism. [Obs.] Antagony that is between Christ and Belial. Milton.

bvious or manifest. It doth not yet appear what we shall be. 1 John iii. 2. Of their vain contest appeared no end. Milton.

Any place of public contest or exertion; any sphere of action; as, the arenaof debate; the arena of life.