digladiation

• IPA^(key): /daɪˌɡlædiˈeɪʃən/

digladiation (countable and uncountable, plural digladiations)

1. (obsolete) Act of digladiating; violent dispute, or combat.
   • 1674, John Evelyn, Navigation and Commerce, in which his Majesties title to the Dominion of the Sea is asserted against the Novel and later Pretenders:

     sore digladiations and contests

• “digladiation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.