Pugilistic

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Off or pertaining to pugilists or pugilism; relating to boxing or fighting with the fists.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to pugillism.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. in the manner of a pugilist
  • adjective. fighting with the fists
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  • adjective. of or relating to pugilism or pugilists
  • Word Usage
    "There were other critics — Borrow always had plenty of critics — who found it difficult to make his admiration for the prize-ring fit in with his denunciation in one passage of “those disgraceful and brutalising exhibitions called pugilistic combats.”"
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    fighting