Word Finder - contested

definition

To contend.

example

I will contest for the open seat on the board.

synonyms

• compete
• contend
• go in for

definition

To call into question; to oppose.

example

The rival contested the dictator's re-election because of claims of voting irregularities.

synonyms

• call into question
• oppose

definition

To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.

example

The troops contested every inch of ground.

definition

To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist, as a claim, by course of law.

synonyms

• controvert

definition

Controversial; contentious; debated

In any case, Lori deserved to have something – and probably would have if she had contested the will instead of running away.

William sustained another defeat, but the battle was one of the most fiercely contested of the whole war.

At Emesa the Palmyrenes were defeated in a stiffly contested battle.

To be returned to Parliament was one of his few ambitions, and in 1868 he unsuccessfully contested Mid-Somerset.

Three other letters, though contested by Hefele, seem to have been written by Liberius at the time of his submission to the emperor.

His opportunity seemed to have come when, in the middle of the 16th century, the Order of the Sword broke up, and the possession of Livonia was fiercely contested between Sweden, Poland and Denmark.

During the wars between Turkey and Austria, its ownership was often contested; and it fell before King Matthias I.

On the evening of the loth, after all their long and hardly contested enveloping marches, Nogi's left and Kawamura's right met north of Mukden.

Parliament even contested the claim of the bishops to determine matters of faith.

These were contested by Germany, whose flag was hoisted on Yap, and the matter was referred to the arbitration of Pope Leo XIII.

Henry, who already ruled lower Lusatia and the new and smaller Saxon east mark, was succeeded in 1103 by his cousin Thimo, and in 1104 by his son Henry II., whose claim on the mark was contested by Thimo's son Conrad.

During this brilliant period of French medicine the superiority of the school of Paris could hardly be contested.

At his advanced age the anxiety and excitement of the contested election of 1891 proved too great.

The most sharply contested of the changes was in regard to silks, which had been completely prohibited, and were now admitted at a duty of 30 per cent.

In Kentucky the Unionist victory was secured almost without a blow, and, even at the end of 1861, the Confederate outposts west of the Alleghenies lay no farther north than the line Columbus - Bowling Green - Cumberland Gap, though southern Missouri was still a contested ground.

The battle of Shiloh was a savage scuffle between two half-disciplined hosts, contested with a fury rare even in this war.

A few days after this battle (called Peach Tree Creek) took place the battle of Atlanta, which was fiercely contested by the veterans of both sides, and in which McPherson, one of the best generals in the Union army, was killed.

He unsuccessfully contested Coventry in 1863; in 1865 he was elected in the liberal interest for Warwick, for which he sat until his elevation to the peerage.

The inscriptions at Pompeii, for instance, give evidence of keenly contested elections in the and century.

In 1269 he inherited Carinthia and part of Carniola; and having made good his claim, contested by the Hungarians, on the field of battle, he was the most powerful prince in Germany when an election for the German throne took place in 1273.

An excited controversy having arisen about the result of the balloting in the states of South Carolina, Florida, Oregon and Louisiana, the two parties in Congress in order to allay a crisis dangerous to public peace agreed to pass an act referring all contested election returns to an extraordinary commission, called the "Electoral Commission" (q.v.), which decided each contest by eight against seven votes in favour of the Republican candidates.

This action excited strong personal as well as political feeling, and his election was hotly contested, the second and.

But this proof was rather insufficient, as indeed it was felt to be, and, in any case, nothing could be deduced from it save a kind of precedence in honour, which was never contested even by the Greeks.

The right of a private company to make prizes was hotly contested in Holland, and denied by the stricter religionists, especially the Mennonites, who considered all war unlawful.

It is strange that the underlying assumption of panlogism was not at once contested in this plain way.

This view was hotly contested by many workers and it was sought to explain the trichogyne - without much success - as a respiratory organ, or as a boring organ which made a way for the developing apothecium.

Disputes had been constantly recurring between Dutch and English traders in the East Indies and elsewhere, and the seeds were already sown of that stern rivalry which was to issue in a series of fiercely contested wars.

On sea in 1673 de Ruyter, in a series of fiercely contested battles, successfully maintained his strenuous and dogged conflict against the united English and French fleets.

The zeal, industry and courage displayed by the grand pensionary during the course of this fiercely contested naval struggle could scarcely have been surpassed.

In 1850 Bell successfully contested the borough of St Albans in order that he might be able to advocate his proposals for reform more effectually in parliament.

For the encouragement of research and literary style the government awards periodical prizes which are very keenly contested.

One other posthumous production also (besides the tract on Heresy before mentioned) may be referred to this, if not, as Aubrey suggests, an earlier time - the two thousand and odd elagiac verses in which he gave his 1 The De medio animarum statu of Thomas White, a heterodox Catholic priest, who contested the natural immortality of the soul.

During the 13th century several attempts were made to enumerate these princes, and at the contested election of 1257 seven of them took part.

The popular feeling for the first time found expression when Luther, on All Saints day 1517, nailed to a church door in Wittenberg the theses in which he contested the doctrine Luther which lay at the root of the scandalous traffic in indulgences carried on in the popes name by Tetzel and his like.

A portrait of a musician in the same gallery is in like manner contested between the master and the pupil.

The overlordship over the country was, however, contested by the king of Poland, and their rival claims were a continual source of dispute between the two kingdoms. In 1412 a remarkable agreement was arrived at between Sigismund, in his quality of king of Hungary, and King Ladislaus II.

In this capacity he successfully contested the validity of the "California land claims" - claims to about 19,000 sq.

Dr Jameson contested the constitutional right of the council so to act, and on his advice the governor dissolved parliament in September.

The will was contested by Smith's heirs, but in 1847 was sustained by the supreme judicial court of Massachusetts.

He certainly set out for Rome from the south of Italy (where he remained as proconsul) at the bidding of the aristocratic party, when the city was threatened by Marius and Cinna, but he displayed little energy, and the engagement which he fought before the Colline gate, although hotly contested, was indecisive.

He was returned to the House of Commons in that year for the Irish borough of Carlow, and became a devoted admirer and adherent of Mr Gladstone; but he was practically a silent member, and his parliamentary career came to an end after the general election of 1865, when, having headed the poll for Bridgnorth, he was unseated on a scrutiny; he contested Bridgnorth again in 1868, but without success.

He gradually reverted to formal membership of the Liberal party, and in January 1906 unsuccessfully contested a division of Edinburgh as a supporter of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman at the general election.

Its decrees were received in the East but long contested in the Western Church, where a schism arose that lasted for seventy years.

Owing to his dissatisfaction with the conduct of the Conservative ministry during the Red River Rebellion in 1869-70, he abandoned that party, and in 1872 unsuccessfully contested Algoma in the Liberal interest.

The validity of his acts was contested on the pretext that, having been originally bishop of Porto, he could not be a legitimate pope.

Possession of the Sandbag Battery was far more fiercely contested.

The war was hotly contested, for Sir Eyre Coote was now an old man, and the Mysore army was welldisciplined and equipped, and also skilfully handled by Hyder and his son Tippoo.

The advance along the ridge from Zugna Torta, which had been throughout stubbornly contested by the Italians, had been definitely checked by a regiment of the Taro Bde.

The questions of the conduct of territorial affairs do not seem to have been contested systematically on national party lines until about 1825.

The election was contested, and his choice was confirmed by the legislature, the court of last resort in such cases.