Strive
Strive , intransitive verb
[Old French estriver; of Teutonic origin, and akin to German streben, Dutch streven, Danish straebe, Swedish strafva. Compare Strife.]
1.
To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard. [Rarely]
Was for this his ambition strove
To equal Caesar first, and after, Jove?
2.
To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest; -- followed by against or with before the person or thing opposed; as, strive against temptation; strive for the truth. — Chaucer
My Spirit shall not always strive with man.
Why dost thou strive against him?
Now private pity strove with public hate,
Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate.
3.
To vie; to compete; to be a rival. — Chaucer
[Not] that sweet grove
Of Daphne, by Orontes and the inspired
Castalian spring, might with this paradise
Of Eden strive.
Strive , noun
1.
An effort; a striving. [Rare] — Chapman
2.
Strife; contention. [Obsolete] — Wyclif (luke xxi. 9)