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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Antagonist :: Antagonist (n.) One who contends with another, especially in combat; an adversary; an opponent..
Fray :: Fray (n.) Affray; broil; contest; combat.
Recreant :: Recreant (a.) Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; cowardly; mean-spirited; craven..
Duelist :: Duelist (n.) One who fights in single combat.
Gladiatorian :: Gladiatorian (a.) Of or pertaining to gladiators, or to contests or combatants in general..
Combatable :: Combatable (a.) Such as can be, or is liable to be, combated; as, combatable foes, evils, or arguments..
Militant :: Militant (a.) Engaged in warfare; fighting; combating; serving as a soldier.
Monomachy :: Monomachy (n.) A duel; single combat.
Midshipman :: Midshipman (n.) In the English naval service, the second rank attained by a combatant officer after a term of service as naval cadet. Having served three and a half years in this rank, and passed an examination, he is eligible to promotion to the rank of lieutenant..
Defy :: Defy (v. t.) To provoke to combat or strife; to call out to combat; to challenge; to dare; to brave; to set at defiance; to treat with contempt; as, to defy an enemy; to defy the power of a magistrate; to defy the arguments of an opponent; to defy public opinion..
Knockdown :: Knockdown (n.) A felling by a knock, as of a combatant, or of an animal..
Combat :: Combat (v. t.) To fight with; to oppose by force, argument, etc.; to contend against; to resist..
Dueling :: Dueling (n.) The act or practice of fighting in single combat. Also adj.
Combated :: Combated (imp. & p. p.) of Comba.
Hellanodic :: Hellanodic (n.) A judge or umpire in games or combats.
Stickle :: Stickle (v. i.) To separate combatants by intervening.
Monomachist :: Monomachist (n.) One who fights in single combat; a duelist.
Combativeness :: Combativeness (n.) A cranial development supposed to indicate a combative disposition.
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..
Darrain :: Darrain (v. t.) To fight out; to contest; to decide by combat.
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