مُدَافَعَةٌ

Form: 3

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مُدَافَعَةٌIII [in its primary acceptation] signifies The contending, or striving, with another, to push him, or repel him; or the pushing, or repelling, another, being pushed, or repelled, by him; or the pushing against another; syn. مُزَاحَمَةٌ. [Hence, يُدَافِعُ الأَخْبَثَيْنِ He is striving to suppress the urine and ordure: see أَخْبَثُ. And مُدَافَعَةُ العَيْشِ The striving to retain life: see 2 in art. زلج.
2 But it is often used in the same sense as دَفْعٌ:] see the verb and its two inf. ns. in seven places in the former half of the first paragraph of this article.
3 Also i. q. مُمَاطَلَةٌ: in some of the copies of the S, مُطَاوَلَةٌ. You say, دَافَعْتُهُ بِحَقِّهِ, or عَنْ حَقِّهِ, I deferred with him, delayed with him, or put him off, in the matter of his right, or due, by promising time after time to render it to him; [and so repelled him, or strove to repel him, from it;] syn. مَاطَلْتُهُ. And دافع بِحَاجَتِهِ He deferred, delayed, postponed, or put off, his needful affair. (L in art. رثد.)
4 دافع الرَّجُلُ أَمْرَ كَذَا The man attached, or devoted, himself to such an affair, and exerted himself, and persisted, or persevered, in it.

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