corrival

Corrival, kor-rī′val, n. a fellow-rival: a competitor: an equal.—adj. contending: emulous.—v.i. and v.t. to rival: to vie with.—ns.

Certainly in our day it is the most general, and at the same time the most expensive, and although several rivals contend with Sir Walter Ralegh for the praise of having introduced tobacco into England, yet the "bright honour" of having taught his countrymen to imitate the Indians, in this particular, he "wears without corrival."

By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap     To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon,     Or dive into the bottom of the deep,     Where fadom line could never touch the ground,     And pluck up drowned honour by the locks,     So he that doth redeem her thence might wear     Without corrival all her dignities;     But out upon this half-fac'd fellowship!

It followeth not that because the Spirit will have no corrival, that therefore other things may not be in their places.

For the League, hardly yet thoroughly organized under the leadership of Maximilian of Bavaria, was rather a Catholic corrival than cordial ally of the Imperial house.