Em"u*lous (?), a. [L. aemulus. See Emulate.]
1.
Ambitiously desirous to equal or even to excel another; eager to emulate or vie with another; desirous of like excellence with another; -- with of; as, emulous of another's example or virtues.
2.
Vying with; rivaling; hence, contentious, envious.
"
Emulous Carthage."
B. Jonson.
Emulous missions 'mongst the gods.
Shak.
© Webster 1913.