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Definition of Combaters
1. combater [n] - See also: combater
Lexicographical Neighbors of Combaters
Literary usage of Combaters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... not a tentions such as he either has not st Philosophy, all, or at least does
not hold and pursue in the manner charged against him The combaters of the ..."
2. Journal of the Life, Labours, and Travels of Thomas Shillitoe in the Service by Thomas Shillitoe (1839)
"When the poor animal received an injury, or the combaters were injured by him,
the acclamations of joy manifested by the spectators, we were informed, ..."
3. The Romance of the Irish Stage: With Pictures of the Irish Capital in the by Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy (1897)
"... the gods looking down took part in the fight, not alone by yells of encouragement
or execration, but by missiles which they rained upon the combaters. ..."
4. The New Statistical Account of Scotland (1845)
"... is capable of containing at one time eight individuals of the ordinary size.
The chase in which these venerable combaters of time are now vegetating is ..."
5. A Selection from the Papers of the Earls of Marchmont, in the Possession of by Hugh Hume Marchmont, Patrick Hume Marchmont, Alexander Hume-Campbell Marchmont (1831)
"... the two great combaters for the protestants; one for doctrine bred a Calvinist;
for religious practice, who excels most men so high in quality, ..."
6. The Works of the Rev. William Bridge by William Bridge (1845)
"... signifies the sorrows of combaters entering the lists with the sense of their
utmost dangers of life. Matthew tells us that he began to be very ..."