Definition of combat

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Combat (n.) An engagement of no great magnitude; or one in which the parties engaged are not armies.

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List :: List (v. t.) To inclose for combat; as, to list a field..
Purgation :: Purgation (n.) The clearing of one's self from a crime of which one was publicly suspected and accused. It was either canonical, which was prescribed by the canon law, the form whereof used in the spiritual court was, that the person suspected take his oath that he was clear of the matter objected against him, and bring his honest neighbors with him to make oath that they believes he swore truly; or vulgar, which was by fire or water ordeal, or by combat. See Ordeal..
Gage :: Gage (n.) A glove, cap, or the like, cast on the ground as a challenge to combat, and to be taken up by the accepter of the challenge; a challenge; a defiance..
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat..
Battle :: Battle (v. t.) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat..
Sciomachy :: Sciomachy (n.) A fighting with a shadow; a mock contest; an imaginary or futile combat.
Combated :: Combated (imp. & p. p.) of Comba.
Combat :: Combat (v. t.) To fight with; to oppose by force, argument, etc.; to contend against; to resist..
Tournament :: Tournament (n.) A mock fight, or warlike game, formerly in great favor, in which a number of combatants were engaged, as an exhibition of their address and bravery; hence, figuratively, a real battle..
Monomachy :: Monomachy (n.) A duel; single combat.
Stickle :: Stickle (v. i.) To separate combatants by intervening.
Battailant :: Battailant (n.) A combatant.
Encounter :: Encounter (v. t.) A meeting, with hostile purpose; hence, a combat; a battle; as, a bloody encounter..
Cartel :: Cartel (n.) A letter of defiance or challenge; a challenge to single combat.
Combat :: Combat (v. i.) To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight..
Soldier :: Soldier (n.) One who is engaged in military service as an officer or a private; one who serves in an army; one of an organized body of combatants.
Combativeness :: Combativeness (n.) A cranial development supposed to indicate a combative disposition.
Boxing :: Boxing (n.) The act of fighting with the fist; a combat with the fist; sparring.
Gladiatorian :: Gladiatorian (a.) Of or pertaining to gladiators, or to contests or combatants in general..
Combater :: Combater (n.) One who combats.
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