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Definition of Oppugnant
1. a. Tending to awaken hostility; hostile; opposing; warring.
Definition of Oppugnant
1. Adjective. opposing, antagonistic, contrary ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) One who oppugns; an opponent. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Oppugnant
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oppugnant
Literary usage of Oppugnant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones (1866)
"The President is naturally a little oppugnant. He has just appointed a clerk, in
the Department of War, a military judge, with rank and pay of colonel of ..."
2. A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer: Comprising Ancient and Modern Military by Thomas Wilhelm (1881)
"oppugnant. Tending to awaken hostility ; hostile; opposing. Oran. A seaport town
of Algeria, about 220 miles west-southwest of Algiers ; it is defended by ..."
3. The poetry of the Pentateuch by John Hobart Caunter (1839)
"... prominent feature nf the early Hebrew writers. Metre essential to poetry
properly so called. The distinguishing qualities of prose and poetry oppugnant. ..."
4. Latin Syntax by Diagrams, with First Year Latin: Caesar's Gallic War by George W. Lewis, Julius Caesar (1911)
"Galli nostra castra oppugnant?Novum donum. 77.II,you,he,she,It,we,you,they.Of war,of
peril,o/f Galba. SPI,26,33. 2. ..."
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