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COMBAT, v.i.

1. To fight; to struggle or contend with an opposing force.

Pardon me; I will not combat in my shirt.

This word is particularly used to denote private contest, or the fighting of two persons in a duel; but it is used in a general sense for the contention of bodies of men, nations, armies, or any species of animals.

After the fall of the republic, the Romans comabated only for the choice of maters.

2. To act in opposition.

It is followed by with before the person, and for before the thing sought.

A combats with B for his right.

COMBAT, v.t.

1. To fight with; to oppose by force; as, to combat an antagonist.

2. To contend against; to oppose; to resist; as, to combat arguments or opinions.

COMBAT, n.

1. A fighting; a struggling to resist, overthrow or conquer; contest by force; engagement; battle; as the combat of armies.

2. A duel; a fighting between two men; formerly, a formal trail of a doubtful cause, or decision of a controversy between two persons, by swords or batons.
1913 Definition
Combat (combat)
v. i.(? or ?; 277)
Com"bat
[imp. *** p. p. Combated] p. pr. *** vb. n. Combating.] [F. combattre] pref. com- + battre to beat, fr. L. battuere to strike. See Batter.]
  1. To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.

    To combat with a blind man I disdain.
    Milton.

    After the fall of the republic, the Romans combated only for the choice of masters.
    Gibbon.

  2. To fight with; to oppose by force, argument, etc.; to contend against; to resist.

    When he the ambitious Norway combated.
    Shak.

    And combated in silence all these reasons.
    Milton.

    Minds combat minds, repelling and repelled.
    Goldsmith.

    Syn. -- To fight against; resist; oppose; withstand; oppugn; antagonize; repel; resent.

  3. A fight; a contest of violence; a struggle for supremacy.

    My courage try by combat, if thou dar'st.
    Shak.

    The noble combat that 'twixt joy and sorrow was fought in Paulina.
    Shak.

  4. An engagement of no great magnitude; or one in which the parties engaged are not armies.

    Single combat, one in which a single combatant meets a single opponent, as in the case of David and Goliath; also, a duel.

    Syn. -- A battle; engagement; conflict; contest; contention; struggle; fight, strife. See Battle, Contest.


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