decertation

English

Etymology

From Latin decertatio, from decertare, decertatum, from de- + certare (“to contend”).

Noun

decertation (plural decertations)

1. (obsolete) contest for mastery; contention; strife
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     a decertation between the disease and nature

   • 1691, John Howe, letter to Dr. Wallis:

     The nearer we approach an adversary (within just limits) in these rational decertations, the less he can have to say against us

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