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
He had jousted hard and lost, and youth holds no post-mortems.
From Dwellers in the Hills by Melville Davisson Post
"That will I do, sire, after Sir Launcelot had jousted with me, if he then finds me worthy of knighthood."
From In the Court of King Arthur by Samuel E. (Samuel Edward) Lowe
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 Sir Thomas Malory
