What's the difference between pugilist and pugilistic?

Pugilist


Definition:

  • (n.) One who fights with his fists; esp., a professional prize fighter; a boxer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Chris Matthews, the pugilistic MSNBC host, said: "Today, moderators are expected to be aggressive: they're going to ask a question, they throw it out there, they don't just say a topic.
  • (2) Nor did he think, probably, that he would then hear his fellow pugilist scream at him: "He glassed me!
  • (3) The former pugilist only won a technical knockout, but that's probably the way the Senate majority leader likes it.
  • (4) As pugilistic as Geithner could get with those who criticized his efforts at bailouts and financial reform, at least he was listening.
  • (5) There was definitely a pugilistic theme in the air yesterday, as Gordon Brown, accompanied by his wife Sarah got a healthy start to his day with a visit to the Innocent smoothie company headquarters near Shepherd's Bush in west London.
  • (6) The console pugilists are still on their feet in the ring, but one has its eye off the fight – guard down, unsteady.
  • (7) Appearing without a tie, and offering more pugilistic rhetoric than before, he said: "The Tory motto is not 'God helps people who help themselves', but 'God helps those whom he has already helped'."
  • (8) Ever since Lebedev – the billionaire owner of the Evening Standard and Independent – floored tycoon Sergei Polonsky, speculation has swirled: where did Lebedev learn his pugilistic skills?
  • (9) As the pugilists walked to their corners for the closing bell, Adam Booth, Haye's trainer, was surely informing him to move up a level.
  • (10) Therefore, elevations of NO and stimulation of the NO-MNP may occur due to sudden, local, alterations of blood pressure during pugilistic activities and play a role in the symptoms of pugilistic Alzheimer's disease.
  • (11) But it certainly feels in the past year to have taken on a more, shall we say, pugilistic tone.
  • (12) This proposal is based on the association between environmental factors and certain neurodegenerative diseases (eg, methylphenyltetra-hydropyridine and parkinsonism, poliovirus infection and post-poliomyelitis syndrome, chickling pea ingestion and lathyrism, an unidentified environmental factor and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-PD complex of Guam, and trauma and pugilist's encephalopathy) and on the long latent period between exposure to environmental factor and the appearance of symptoms in some of these disorders.
  • (13) Parallels with pugilistic encephalopathy are discussed.
  • (14) Leicester may have taken on a less pugilistic outlook since Claudio Ranieri replaced Nigel Pearson but their new signing is a fan of the sport and tells of a friendship that developed between him and the 1980 Olympic light-welterweight gold medallist, Patrizio Oliva.
  • (15) However, in a defiant statement a few hours later the former paratrooper was back on characteristically provocative and pugilistic form.
  • (16) The early exchanges augured a long night as two pugilistic power-baseliners went blow for blow.
  • (17) In a prospective investigation of neurobehavioral functioning in young boxers, 13 pugilists and 13 matched control subjects underwent tests of attention, information-processing rate, memory, and visuomotor coordination and speed.
  • (18) Such behaviour would contrast sharply with yesterday's pugilistic media posturing (with more than a hint of racism) about that "woman from Brazil" and her "disgrace" of a statement.
  • (19) Abbott needs to break decisively out of the pugilistic mindset and develop some genuine collegiality.
  • (20) Tony Gallagher's pugilistic Daily Telegraph , which for all its Conservative leanings seems at its happiest taking on the Tories, opened up a fresh front, examining the expenses claims of Miller and then revealing that her special adviser – and then No 10's spin doctor in chief – had pressured Gallagher in person to drop the Miller story because the timing was unhelpful in the context of Leveson implementation.

Pugilistic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to pugillism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Chris Matthews, the pugilistic MSNBC host, said: "Today, moderators are expected to be aggressive: they're going to ask a question, they throw it out there, they don't just say a topic.
  • (2) Nor did he think, probably, that he would then hear his fellow pugilist scream at him: "He glassed me!
  • (3) The former pugilist only won a technical knockout, but that's probably the way the Senate majority leader likes it.
  • (4) As pugilistic as Geithner could get with those who criticized his efforts at bailouts and financial reform, at least he was listening.
  • (5) There was definitely a pugilistic theme in the air yesterday, as Gordon Brown, accompanied by his wife Sarah got a healthy start to his day with a visit to the Innocent smoothie company headquarters near Shepherd's Bush in west London.
  • (6) The console pugilists are still on their feet in the ring, but one has its eye off the fight – guard down, unsteady.
  • (7) Appearing without a tie, and offering more pugilistic rhetoric than before, he said: "The Tory motto is not 'God helps people who help themselves', but 'God helps those whom he has already helped'."
  • (8) Ever since Lebedev – the billionaire owner of the Evening Standard and Independent – floored tycoon Sergei Polonsky, speculation has swirled: where did Lebedev learn his pugilistic skills?
  • (9) As the pugilists walked to their corners for the closing bell, Adam Booth, Haye's trainer, was surely informing him to move up a level.
  • (10) Therefore, elevations of NO and stimulation of the NO-MNP may occur due to sudden, local, alterations of blood pressure during pugilistic activities and play a role in the symptoms of pugilistic Alzheimer's disease.
  • (11) But it certainly feels in the past year to have taken on a more, shall we say, pugilistic tone.
  • (12) This proposal is based on the association between environmental factors and certain neurodegenerative diseases (eg, methylphenyltetra-hydropyridine and parkinsonism, poliovirus infection and post-poliomyelitis syndrome, chickling pea ingestion and lathyrism, an unidentified environmental factor and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-PD complex of Guam, and trauma and pugilist's encephalopathy) and on the long latent period between exposure to environmental factor and the appearance of symptoms in some of these disorders.
  • (13) Parallels with pugilistic encephalopathy are discussed.
  • (14) Leicester may have taken on a less pugilistic outlook since Claudio Ranieri replaced Nigel Pearson but their new signing is a fan of the sport and tells of a friendship that developed between him and the 1980 Olympic light-welterweight gold medallist, Patrizio Oliva.
  • (15) However, in a defiant statement a few hours later the former paratrooper was back on characteristically provocative and pugilistic form.
  • (16) The early exchanges augured a long night as two pugilistic power-baseliners went blow for blow.
  • (17) In a prospective investigation of neurobehavioral functioning in young boxers, 13 pugilists and 13 matched control subjects underwent tests of attention, information-processing rate, memory, and visuomotor coordination and speed.
  • (18) Such behaviour would contrast sharply with yesterday's pugilistic media posturing (with more than a hint of racism) about that "woman from Brazil" and her "disgrace" of a statement.
  • (19) Abbott needs to break decisively out of the pugilistic mindset and develop some genuine collegiality.
  • (20) Tony Gallagher's pugilistic Daily Telegraph , which for all its Conservative leanings seems at its happiest taking on the Tories, opened up a fresh front, examining the expenses claims of Miller and then revealing that her special adviser – and then No 10's spin doctor in chief – had pressured Gallagher in person to drop the Miller story because the timing was unhelpful in the context of Leveson implementation.

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