Word Finder - vied

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To fight for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something.

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Her suitors were all vying for her attention.

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To rival (something), etc.

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To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy.

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To stake; to wager.

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To stake a sum of money upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See revie.

At his death, about 1328, heathen vied with Christian in honouring him.

Men vied with each other in celebrating Diane's beauty, which, if we may judge from her portraits, has been slightly exaggerated.

The and the court and government of Germany vied with the Regenc.v.

It became a question between Amalric and Nureddin, which of the two should control the discordant viziers, who vied with one another for the control of the decadent caliphs of Egypt.

Academies vied with each other in enrolling Leverrier among their members; the Royal Society awarded him the Copley medal; the king of Denmark sent him the order of the Dannebrog; he was named officer in the Legion of Honour, and preceptor to the comte de Paris; a chair of astronomy was created for his benefit at the Faculty of Sciences; he was appointed adjunct astronomer to the Bureau of Longitudes.

Roman emperors vied with wealthy natives in lavish gifts, one Vibius Salutaris among the latter presenting a quantity of gold and silver images to be carried annually in procession.

They soon became Catholics; and then in all the usages of religion, in church building, in founding monasteries, in their veneration for relics, they vied with Italians.

The noble houses of Gonzaga at Mantua, at Carrara at Padua, of Este at Ferrara, of Malatesta at Rimini, of Visconti at Milan, vied with Azzo di Correggio in entertaining the illustrious man of letters.

The Austrians vied with his own countrymen in doing honour to the dead general.

In magnificence of equipage and retinue the abbots vied with the first nobles of the realm.

Grotius vied with the Latinists of his day in the composition of Latin verses.

The women who compete on Rock of Love Charm School are all previous contestants from either Rock of Love or Rock of Love 2, the show where women vied for the attention of Poison front man Bret Michaels.

The preface treats of Greek sciences, geometry, the discovery of specific gravity by Archimedes, and other discoveries of the Greeks, and of Romans of his time who have vied with the Greeks -- Lucretius in his poem De Rerum Natura, Cicero in rhetoric, and Varro in philology, as shown by his De Lingua Latina.

Jones vied for Lux's (Britt Robertson) heart when the troubled, former foster child came to school.

There's Something About Miriam - This was a dating reality show in which male suitors vied for the attention of Miriam.

In the days of its independence it issued an important series of coins, and in luxury it vied with Capua.

The large towns through which the river flows have vied with one another in building harbours, providing shipping accommodation, and furnishing other facilities for the efficient navigation of the Elbe.

As early as the beginning of the 18th century its fleets vied with those of eastern Long Island.

Francis owes the greater measure of his glory to the artists and men of letters who vied in celebrating his praises.

During 1888 his personality was the dominating feature of French politics, and, when he resigned his seat as a protest against the reception given by the chamber to his revisionist proposals, constituencies vied with one another in selecting him as their representative.

His subjects vied with each other in hurrying soldiers to his standard, and in a few weeks the great Turkish host was in full retreat.

The later books say that they were all converted at once; but, according to the most ancient Pali record - though their old love and reverence had been so rekindled when the Buddha came near that their cold resolutions quite broke down, and they vied with each other in such acts of personal attention as an Indian disciple loves to pay to his teacher, - yet it was only after the Buddha had for five days talked to them, sometimes separately, sometimes together, that they accepted in its entirety his plan of salvation.'

In every portion of the globe the sixtieth anniversary of the queens reign excited interest; in every country the queens name was mentioned with affection and respect; while the people of the United States vied with the subjects of the British empire in praise of the queens character and in expressions of regard for her person.

Flamininus's last act before returning home was characteristic. Of the Achaeans, who vied with one another in showering upon him honours and rewards, he asked but one personal favour, the redemption of the Italian captives who had been sold as slaves in Greece during the Hannibalic War.

Outside, the Republicans and Carlists were getting troublesome, and the tone of their press vied with that of the Liberals in their attacks on the Conservative cabinet.

New York financier Henry Graves Jr. and Ohio automobile engineer James Ward Packard vied with one another to own a timepiece with the greatest possible number of complications.

Its merchant ships vied with those of Genoa, Venice and Ragusa, trading as far west as the North Sea and the Baltic, and as far east as Alexandria.

Writers in different departments of literature vied with each other to write in pure and correct Servian.

It vied with Ephesus and Pergamum for the title "First (city) of Asia."

In musical skill and invention he already vied with the best professors of the art in Italy; his personal taste would have led him to choose painting as his profession, and one of the most eminent artists of his day, Lodovico Cigoli, owned that to his judgment and counsel he was mainly indebted for the success of his works.

His chief temple at Nippur was known as E-Kur, signifying "mountain house," and such was the sanctity acquired by this edifice that Babylonian and Assyrian rulers, down to the latest days, vied with one another in embellishing and restoring Bel's seat of worship, and the name itself became the designation of a temple in general.