Crossword-Solution: CORRIVAL 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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.

CORRIVAL, kor-r[=i]'val, _n._ a fellow-rival: a competitor: an equal.--_adj._ contending: emulous.--_v.i._ and _v.t._ to rival: to vie with.--_ns._ CORR[=I]'VALRY; CORR[=I]'VALSHIP.

That which much promoted it beside the common Proverb, was an expression in _Theocritus_, a very ancient Poet, ού φθέγξη λύκον εἴδες _Edere non poteris vocem, Lycus est tibi visus_; which _Lycus_ was Rival unto another, and suddenly appearing stopped the mouth of his Corrival: now _Lycus_ signifying also a Wolf, occasioned this apprehension; men taking that appellatively, which was to be understood properly, and translating the genuine acception.

Let who will climb ambitious glibbery rounds, And lean upon the vulgar’s rotten love, I’ll not corrival him.

When one kills his opposing corrival in combat, without violation of the laws of warfare, he is justly styled a heavenly champion, and not one who takes undue advantage of his enemy.