Chapter Agnition to Agriculturism of A by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Agog
(A*gog") a. & adv. [Cf. F. gogue fun, perhaps of Celtic origin.] In eager desire; eager; astir.

All agog to dash through thick and thin.
Cowper.

Agoing
(A*go"ing) adv. [Pref. a- + p. pr. of go.] In motion; in the act of going; as, to set a mill agoing.

Agon
(||Ag"on) n.; pl. Agones (Gr. Antiq.) A contest for a prize at the public games.

Agone
(A*gone") a. & adv. Ago. [Archaic> & Poet.]

Three days agone I fell sick.
1 Sam. xxx. 13.

Agone
(A"gone) n. [See Agonic.] Agonic line.

Agonic
(A*gon"ic) a. [Gr. without angles; 'a priv. + an angle.] Not forming an angle.

Agonic line (Physics), an imaginary line on the earth's surface passing through those places where the magnetic needle points to the true north; the line of no magnetic variation. There is one such line in the Western hemisphere, and another in the Eastern hemisphere.

Agonism
(Ag"o*nism) n. [Gr. fr. to contend for a prize, fr. . See Agon.] Contention for a prize; a contest. [Obs.] Blount.

Agonist
(Ag"o*nist) n. One who contends for the prize in public games. [R.]

Agonistic
(Ag`o*nis"tic Ag`o*nis"tic*al) a. Agonism.]—> Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural.

As a scholar, he [Dr. Parr] was brilliant, but he consumed his power in agonistic displays.
De Quincey.

Agonistically
(Ag`o*nis"tic*al*ly), adv. In an agonistic manner.

Agonistics
(Ag`o*nis"tics) n. The science of athletic combats, or contests in public games.

Agonize
(Ag"o*nize) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Agonized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Agonizing ] [F. agoniser, LL. agonizare, fr. Gr. . See Agony.]

1. To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.

To smart and agonize at every pore.
Pope.

2. To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately.

Agonize
(Ag"o*nize), v. t. To cause to suffer agony; to subject to extreme pain; to torture.

He agonized his mother by his behavior.
Thackeray.

Agonizingly
(Ag"o*ni`zing*ly) adv. With extreme anguish or desperate struggles.

Agonothete
(Ag"o*no*thete`) n. [Gr. + to set. appoint.] [Antiq.] An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.

Agonothetic
(Ag`o*no*thet"ic) a. Pertaining to the office of an agonothete.

Agony
(Ag"o*ny) n.; pl. Agonies [L. agonia, Gr. orig. a contest, fr. : cf. F. agonie. See Agon.]