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The spelling ageist, though sanctioned by Webster's New World Dictionary, looks as if it should sound like 'aguyst,' and when you drop the e, to agist, it seems analogous to aginner.
In that prickly family atmosphere, McCormick grew up to be a reflexive "aginner," a man of epic antagonisms, prodigious crotchets and - here his mother was wrong - fixed, taproot convictions impermeable to evidence or reason.