单词 | dimication |
释义 | dimication Now rare.|dɪmɪˈkeɪʃən| [ad. L. dīmicātiōn-em, n. of action f. dīmicāre to fight.] Fighting; strife, contention.
1623Cockeram, Dimication, a battell. 1650S. Clarke Eccl. Hist. i. (1654) 66 In the dimication which arose about Arius. 1660Fisher Rusticks Alarm Wks. (1679) 229 In thy meer demi-digested demications against them. 1884Times 28 July 6 In such a continual dimication..the defeated impersonations of error will be found fighting as briskly as ever they did to-morrow. So † ˈdimicate v., to fight, contend; dimicatory a. (affected or humorous), relating to fighting or fencing.
1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 314 When Snailes are about to dimicate with Serpents. 1892Sat. Rev. 2 Apr. 400/1 For matters dimicatory. |

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