agonistic (agonistik)

[ The silver krater given by Achilles as an agonistic prize at the funeral of Patroklos, which, as the poet tells us, was made by the Sidonians, and brought over the sea by the Phœnicians. C. T. Newton , Art and Archæol., p. 289. 2. Combative; polemic; given to contending. Two conflicting agonistic elements seem to have conlike wild horses. tended in the man, sometimes pulling him different ways, Walt Whitman, in E ays from The Critic, p. 32. 3. Strained; aiming at effect; melodramatic. N. E. D.