The Collaborative International Dictionary
Monomachia \Mon`o*ma"chi*a\, Monomachy \Mo*nom"a*chy\, n. [L.
monomachia, Gr. ?, fr. ? fighting in single combat; mo`nos
single, alone + ? to fight.]
A duel; single combat. ``The duello or monomachia.''
--Sir W.
Scott.
Wiktionary
n. (context now rare English) A fight or other contest between two people or forces; a duel; single combat. (from 16th c.)
Usage examples of "monomachy".
I took off the brown mantle and my guild cloak, put my boots on a stool near the brazier, and stood beside him to dry my breeches and hose, asking if all those who came this way on monomachy stopped to refresh themselves with him.
Wherefore we most heartily provoke, challenge, and defy your Lordship to the said combat and monomachy, and have sent these letters by the hand of our well beloved and royal brother Edmund, sometime King under us in Narnia, Duke of Lantern Waste and Count of the Western March, Knight of the Noble Order of the Table, to whom we have given full power of determining with your Lordship all the conditions of the said battle.