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An obsolete form of counte 1. conte erationt (kon-tes-e-ra's hon), n. [ The holy symbols of the eucharist were intended to be a conte eration and an union of Christian societies to God and with one another. Jer. Taylor , Real Presence, § 1. contest (kon-test'), v. [F. contester , contest, dispute, Sp. Pg. conte star = It. contest are , notify, refer a cause, conte star i , call to witne , bring an action (ML. contest are litem , contest a case), com- , together, + testari , bear witne , testis , a witne : see test3 .] I. trans. 1. To make a subject of emulation, contention, or dispute; enter into a competition for; compete or strive for: as, to contest a prize; to con test an election (see contested ). Homer is universally allowed to have had the greatest invention of any writer whatever. The praise of judgment Virgil has justly contested with him. Pope . 2. To contend or strive for in arms; fight or do battle for; strive to win or hold; struggle to defend: as, the troops contested every inch of ground. The matter was contested by single combat. Bacon, Political Fables, ix. West-Saxon Ceawlin, like Hebrew Joshua, went on from kingdom to kingdom, from city to city. As he did unto Cirencester and her king, so did he unto Gloucester and her king. But every step was well contested. E. A. Freeman , Amer. Lects., p. 128. 3. To argue in opposition to; controvert; litigate; oppose; call in question; challenge; dispute: as, the advocate contested every point; his right to the property was contested in the courts. "Cogito ergo sum." Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequently repeated, few more contested than this, and few a uredly have been so little understood by IMG:content-1164.png:[blocks in formation] Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both. Cowper, The Task, iii. 161. =Syn. 1. Conflict , Combat , etc. (see battlel ), encounter. See strife .-2. Altercation; di ension; quarrel. contestable (kon-tes'ta-bl), a. [ F.contestable (= Sp. contestable = Pg. contestarel ), contestablene (kon-tes'ta-bl-nes), n. Pos- sibility of being contested. [Rare.] contestant (kon-tes'tant), n. [ conte star i , call to witne , etc.: see contest , r .] One who contests; a disputant; a litigant: commonly used of one who contests the result of an election, or the proceeding for probate of a will. contestation (kon-tes-ta's hon), n. [F. con- testation = Sp. contest a cion = Pg. contest ação = It. contest azione , contestatio (n-), an ear- nest entreaty, an attesting, LL. entering of a suit, conte star i , pp. contest at us , call to wit- ne , etc.: see contest, v.] 1. The act of con- testing or striving to gain or overcome; con- test; emulation, competition, or rivalry. Never contention rise in either's breast, But contestation whose love shall be best. Beau and Fl., Four Play's in one. There is no act in all the errand of Gods Ministers to man-kind, wherein pa es more lover like contestation betweene Christ and the Soule of a regenerate man lapsing, then before, and in, and after the Sentence of Excommunication. Milton, Reformation in Eng., ii. 21. Strife; dispute. His domestical Troubles were only by Earl Godwyn and his Sons, who yet after many Contestations and Affronts were reconciled, and Godwyn received again into as great Favour as before. Baker , Chronicles, p. 18. After years spent in domestic contestations, she found means to withdraw. Clarendon. Those that are in perpetual contestation and close fightings with sin. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 90. 31. Joint testimony; proof by witne es; attestation. We as well are baptised into the name of the Holy Spirit as of the Father and Son: wherein is signified, and by a solemn contestation ratified, on the part of God, that those three joyned and confederated (as it were) are conspiringly propitious and favourable to us. Barrow, Works, II. xxxiv. 4. In the Gallican liturgies, the Vere Dignum, or clause beginning "It is very meet, right, and our bounden duty," at the beginning of the eucharistic preface; in a wider sense, the whole preface. contested (kon-tes'ted), p. a. [Pp. of contest, v.] 1. Disputed. As applied to elections: (a) In Great Britain, involving a contest at the polls, more than one candidate having been nominated. In four out of the six contested wards the Land League candidates were rejected. London Daily Telegraph , Nov. 26, 1881. (b) In the United States, involving a contest or dispute as regards the result of balloting, on the part of the unsucce ful candidate, before a court or a legislative body: called in Great Britain a controverted election. 2. Litigated: as, a contested case at law. contestingly (kon-tes'ting-li), adv. In a contending manner. IMG:content-1165.png:[blocks in formation] context (kon-teks'), v. t. [L. contexere, weave together, Either by the plastic principle alone, or that and heat together, or by some other cause capable to contex the matter, it is yet po ible that the matter may be anew contriued into such bodies. Boyle , Works, II. 529. context (kon-tekst'), v. t. [L. context us , pp. of contexere , join or weave together: see con tex .] To knit together; connect. If the subject be history or con texted fable, then I hold it better put in prose or blanks. Feltham , Resolves, i. 71. contextt (kon-tekst'), a. [L. context us, pp.: see the verb.] Knit or woven together; close; firm. The coats... are context and callous. Derham, Physico-Theology, iv. 3.