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To subdue by wrestling. [Obs.] Spenser.

Wrought upon excessively; overworked; overexcited.

Excess of zeal. Fairfax.

Too zealous.

To bend forward. [R.] Owen.

One who approves. Formerly, one who made proof or trial.

A controversy (1886 --93) between Great Britain and the United States as to the right of Canadians not licensed by the United States to carry on seal fishing in the Bering Sea, over which the United States claimed jurisdiction as a mare clausum. A court of arbitration, meeting in Paris in 1893, decided against the clai…

A plant of differend species of the genus Trifolium; as the common red clover, T. pratense, the white, T. repens, and the hare's foot, T. arvense. Clover weevil (Zoöl.) a small weevil (Apion apricans), that destroys the seeds of clover. -- Clover worm (Zoöl.), the larva of a small moth (Asopia costalis), often very de…

Covered with growing clover. Flocks thick nibbling through the clovered vale. Thomson.

Turning or looking opposite ways. [Obs.] The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton.

Controversial. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Controversy. [Obs.] Spenser.

A disputant. [Obs.]

Relating to, or consisting of, controversy; disputatious; polemical; as, controversial divinity. Whole libraries of controversial books. Macaulay.

One who carries on a controversy; a disputant. He [Johnson] was both intellectually and morally of the stuff of which controversialists are made. Macaulay.

In a controversial manner.

Act of controverting; controversy. [Obs.] Hooker.

A controverser. [Obs.]

; dispute; debate; discussion; agitation of contrary opinions. This left no room for controversy about the title. Locke. A dispute is commonly oral, and a controversy in writing. Johnson.

To make matter of controversy; to dispute or oppose by reasoning; to contend against in words or writings; to contest; to debate. Some controverted points had decided according to the sense of the best jurists. Macaulay.