Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art or science of contending in public games or other athletic contests.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The science of athletic combats, or contests in public games.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The range of activities associated with
aggressive encounters between members of the samespecies , includingthreat ,attack ,appeasement , orretreat .
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Attention to what Jean-Luc Nancy called the "excription" of meaning, the outside of thought, does not necessarily temper the paranoid bent of critical agonistics (105).
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