agonistical

adj

1. (archaic)agonistic (of or relating to contests that were originally participated in by the Ancient Greeks).

   “Three words there are here together, [translated as] to follow after, to attain, to be foremost, which are all Agonistical, referring to the customes of the Graecian exercises in their Olympian, Nemaean, Isthmian, Pythian games, which are often alluded to in these Epistles.”