joust
noun
a combat in which two knights on horseback attempted to unhorse each other with blunted lances.
had jousted
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past perfectof joust.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Under Benedict, the conference’s president, Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, had jousted for influence in Italian politics with Cardinal Bertone, whom Francis has largely sidelined.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2014
Poland's three top Communist officials, who had jousted for years with Wojtyla and his wily elder colleague Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, 77, cabled the new Pope to tell him of the "great satisfaction" in his homeland.
From Time Magazine Archive
So the King and his company came to London, and everyone in the Court knew that it was Sir Lancelot who had jousted the best.
From The Book of Romance by Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice)
The mists in which mankind had jousted against each other were swept away, as when the sun of astronomical science arose in the full development of the principle of gravitation.
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
And as he had jousted at a tournament there he overthrew me and thirty knights more, and there he won the degree.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 by Malory, Thomas, Sir
