CONTEND Copy link • CONTENDCic., with = fight [Vid: To COMBAT]. FIGURATIVELY (in argument), impugnare, oppugnare. To contend against anybody’s views, alicujus opinioni repugnare: certare cum aliquo de aliqua re (to endeavour to get the better of an antagonist in argument): concertare (of two endeavouring to do so alternately, cum aliquo de aliqua re): contendere verbis or jurgio (contend violently, in a quarrelsome manner, cum aliquo): decertare (to bring to a decision by argument or words): altercari cum aliquo (to have an altercation with anybody): controversiam habere (to have a dispute or difference, before a court or elsewhere), with anybody, cum aliquo, about anything, de aliqua re (e.g., de fundo, de hereditate): litigare (to be involved in a dispute, generally and before a court, cum aliquo de aliqua re): disceptare, also with verbis (to have a dispute, discuss with a view to discover the truth, or ascertain what is right; with anybody, cum aliquo, about anything, de aliqua re): rixari (cum aliquo, to quarrel with anybody): jurgio contendere cum aliquo: jurgiis certare [Vid: To QUARREL]: to contend for and against, disputare in contrarias partes, or in utramque partem: to contend neither for nor against, in nullam partem disputare: to contend for anything, pro re pugnare. [Vid :, also, DISCUSS, DISPUTE.] Maintain, affirmare: [not asserere]: confirmare: asseverare: velle: contendere, defendere: aio. To contend that anything is not so, negare, with accusative and infinitive (e.g., Democritus negat sine furore quemquam poetam magnum esse posse, Cic.). [SYN. in ASSERT.] CONTEND FOR; Vid: STRIVE (for).