Not in dignified use. [f. FIST sb.1 + -IC.] Pertaining to or concerned with the fists or their use in boxing; pugilistic.
1806. Sporting Mag., XXVIII. June, 146/1. Having a little knowledge of the fistic science.
1812. S. Jones, in D. E. Baker, Biog. Dram., III. 451. The fistic hero in this afterpiece was several times interrupted by hisses in the full flow of his pugilistic eloquence.
1865. Dickens, Mut. Fr., II. xii. This was another common procedure on the part of the ladies of the Hole, when heated by verbal or fistic altercation.
