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agonal

/ˈæɡənəl/

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From agon + -al; cognate with agony.

adjective more agonal · most agonal

Of or pertaining to struggle, competition or conflict; of or pertaining to an agon. Even the agonal games which began with the ancient Greeks were playful in their singular devotion to deities. Games were agonal demonstrations of transcendence.
Of or pertaining to the pain of death. The similarity of these persistent invaginations to the agonal is quite marked; like the agonal, they are multiple, rather short, they are in the ileum, and they are ascending, which is not at all an uncommon feature of the invaginations of death. Agonal invaginations in the adult are, however, unco

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@misc{agonal_2026,
  title = {agonal},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/agonal},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}