corrival

English

Alternative forms

• corival

Etymology

From Middle French corrival, from Latin corrīvālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈɹaɪvəl/

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• Rhymes: -aɪvəl

Noun

corrival (plural corrivals)

1. A fellow rival; a competitor; a rival.
   • 1598, Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1:

     So he that doth redeem her thence might wear
     Without corrival all her dignities:
     But out upon this half-facd fellowship!

   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Iealousie, His Equivocations, Name, Definition, Extent, Seuerall Kindes, of Princes, Parents, Friends. In Beasts, Men, before Marriage, as Corriuals, or after, as in this Place”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 3, member 1, subsection 1, pages 465–466:

     Petronius calleth this paſſion [i.e., jealousy] amantium furioſam æmulationem, a furious emulation, and their ſymptomes are well expreſſed by S^r Ieffrey Chaucer in his firſt Canterbury tale. It will make the neareſt & deareſt friends fall out; they will endure al other things to be common, goods, lands, moneyes, participate of all other pleaſures, and take in good part any diſgraces, iniuries in another kind, but as Propertius well deſcribes it in an Elegie of his, in this they will ſuffer nothing, have no corriuals.

2. (archaic) A companion.
   • 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1:

     The Prince of Wales, Lord John of Lancaster,
     The noble Westmoreland, and warlike Blunt;
     And many more corrivals and dear men
     Of estimation and command in arms.

Derived terms

• corrivalry
• corrivalship

Adjective

corrival (not comparable)

1. Having rivaling claims; emulous; in rivalry.
   • 1701, Bishop William Fleetwood, An Essay Upon Miracles:

     Not thinking, perhaps, that this would be, to erect a Power equal, and corrival with that of God Almighty […]

Verb

corrival (third-person singular simple present corrivals, present participle corrivalling or corrivaling, simple past and past participle corrivalled or corrivaled)

1. To compete with; to rival