My courage try by combat, if thou dar'st. --Shak.
The noble combat that 'twixt joy and sorrow was
fought in Paulina. --Shak.
2. (Mil.) An engagement of no great magnitude; or one in
which the parties engaged are not armies.
{Single combat}, one in which a single combatant meets a
single opponent, as in the case of David and Goliath;
also, a duel.
Syn: A battle; engagement; conflict; contest; contention;
struggle; fight, strife. See {Battle}, {Contest}.
To combat with a blind man I disdain. --Milton.
After the fall of the republic, the Romans combated
only for the choice of masters. --Gibbon.
When he the ambitious Norway combated. --Shak.
And combated in silence all these reasons. --Milton.
Minds combat minds, repelling and repelled.
--Goldsmith.
Syn: To fight against; resist; oppose; withstand; oppugn;
antagonize; repel; resent.