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To make objection or opposition in controversy.

One of the opposing parties or sides in a conflict or a controversy; a faction. For he that is not against us is on our part. Mark ix. 40. Make whole kingdoms take her brother's part. Waller.

Fond of polemics or controversy. [R.]

Of or pertaining to controversy; maintaining, or involving, controversy; controversial; disputative; as, a polemic discourse or essay; polemic theology.

The art or practice of disputation or controversy, especially on religious subjects; that branch of theological science which pertains to the history or conduct of ecclesiastical controversy.

Hence: The ground which any one takes in an argument or controversy; the point of view from which any one proceeds to a discussion; also, a principle laid down as the basis of reasoning; a proposition; a thesis; as, to define one's position; to appear in a false position. Let not the proof of any position depend on the…

Of or pertaining to predestination; as, the predestinarian controversy. Waterland.

Serving to produce; fruitful of results; active; as, a prolific brain; a controversy prolific of evil.

Relating to the five articles or points; as, the quinquarticular controversy between Arminians and Calvinists. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.

ety or subtilty in thought or language. "He makes another paragraph about our refining in controversy." Atterbury.

ue. Wharton. -- Res judicata [L.] (Law), a thing adjudicated; a matter no longer open to controversy.

To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it is taken, or till the owner has performed the decree of court,…

nces; pacification; liquidation of accounts; arrangement; adjustment; as, settlement of a controversy, of accounts, etc.

or one granted during a particular time or the existence of a special cause, as during a controversy respecting the probate of a will, or the right of administration, etc. -- Special agency, an agency confined to some particular matter. -- Special bail, Bail above, or Bail to the action (Law), sureties who undertake…

An agreement by which parties engage to submit any matter of controversy between them to the decision of arbitrators. Wharton (Law Dict.). Bouvier.

e or commit to the discretion or judgment of another or others; to refer; as, to submit a controversy to arbitrators; to submit a question to the court; -- often followed by a dependent proposition as the object. Whether the condition of the clergy be able to bear a heavy burden, is submitted to the house. Swift. We su…

minant. Shak. The sort of chicanery attending the subornation of managers in the Leibnitz controversy. De Quinsey.

ects with each other and with the Roman Catholics, and thus occasioned a long and violent controversy in the Lutheran church.

To put an end to; to make to cease; as, to terminate an effort, or a controversy.

A person to whose sole decision a controversy or question between parties is referred; especially, one chosen to see that the rules of a game, as cricket, baseball, or the like, are strictly observed. A man, in questions of this kind, is able to be a skillful umpire between himself and others. Barrow.…