CONTEST
\kˈɒntɛst], \kˈɒntɛst], \k_ˈɒ_n_t_ɛ_s_t]\
Definitions of CONTEST
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 2010 - Legal Glossary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground.
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To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist; as a claim, by course of law; to controvert.
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To engage in contention, or emulation; to contend; to strive; to vie; to emulate; -- followed usually by with.
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Earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation.
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Earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, etc.; competition; emulation; strife in arms; conflict; combat; encounter.
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To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute.
By Oddity Software
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[as in to contest a will]To oppose, dispute or challenge through formal or legal procedures. For example, the defendant in a lawsuit almost always contests the case made by the plaintiff. Or, a disgruntled relative may formally contest the provisions of a will.
By Oddity Software
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To dispute; as, to contest an election; oppose; litigate.
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To strive; contend; vie.
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A struggle for superiority; dispute.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A struggle for superiority: strife: debate.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A struggle for victory or superiority; dispute; strife in argument.
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To contend for; to struggle to maintain; to controvert; to dispute.
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To strive; to contend; to vie; to emulate. See Test.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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To dispute; to struggle or strive earnestly; to litigate; to oppose; to emulate.
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Struggle; conflict; dispute.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. Earnest struggle for superiority, defence, or the like; strife in arms; —earnest dispute; strife in argument.
By Thomas Sheridan
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HEREDITAMENTS
- Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, mixed, and including not only lands everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir togetherwith (he land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nell is v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 E.730; Owens Lewis, 40 Ind. 508, Am. Rep. 205; Whitlock Greacen. 4S J. Eq.350. 21 Atl. 944; Mitchell Warner, 5 Conn. 407; New York Mabie, 13 150, 04Am. Dec. 53S. Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, mixed and including not only lands everything thereon, but also heir looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with land. Co. Litt. 5 b; 1 Tho. 219; 2 Bl. Com. 17. this term such things are denoted, as subject-matter inheritance, inheritance itself; cannot therefore, its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life into fee. B. & P. 251; 8 T. R. 503; 219, note Hereditaments are divided into corporeal and incorporeal. confined to lands. (q. v.) Vide Incorporeal hereditaments, Shep. To. 91; Cruise's Dig. tit. 1, s. 1; Wood's Inst.221; 3 Kent, Com. 321; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Chit. Pr. 203-229; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1595, et seq.