agony, agonie, agonye

[In Fr. agonie; Sp., Port., & Ital. agonia; fr. Gr. ἀγωνια (απδηίa) = (1) a contest for victory in the public games; (2) gymnastic exercise, as wrestling; (3) anguish.] 1. A struggle on the part of an individual or of a nation for victory; violent exertion, ardent and convulsive effort. "All around us the world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. x. "So round me pre 'd, exulting at my sight, With cries and agonies of wild delight." Pope: Homer's Ody ey, bk. x., 491-2 3. Extreme anguish of body, of mind, or of both. "Who but hath proved, or yet shall prove, That mortal agony of love?" Hemans: Tale of the Secret Tribunal "To hear her streets resound the cries Pour'd from a you sand agonies !" Ibid.: Alaric in Italy. exult in Rome's despair! Be thine ear closed against her suppliant cries, Bid thy soul triumph in her agonies . Ibid. Marius amongst the Ruins of Carthage, In this sense it is often used of the mental anguish endured by the Redeemer in Gethsemane. And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground."- Luke xxii. 44. "By thine agony and bloody sweat; by thy Cro and Pa ion."- Litany .