Brewer's: Agonistes

Agonis′tes
(4 syl.).

Samson Agonistes (the title of Milton's drama) means Samson wrestling with adversity—Samson combating with trouble. (Greek, agonizomai, to combat, to struggle.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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