digladiation

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daɪˌɡlædiˈeɪʃən/

Noun

digladiation (countable and uncountable, plural digladiations)

1. (obsolete) Act of digladiating; violent dispute or combat.
   • 1674, John Evelyn, Navigation and Commerce, in which his Majesties title to the Dominion of the Sea is asserted against the Novel and later Pretenders:

     sore digladiations and contests

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “digladiation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)