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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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CONTROVERSE n. 2 definitions

Controversy. [Obs.] Spenser.

CONTROVERSER n.

A disputant. [Obs.]

CONTROVERSIAL a.

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

CONTROVERSIALIST n.

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

CONTROVERSIALLY adv.

In a controversial manner.

CONTROVERSION n.

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

CONTROVERSOR n.

A controverser. [Obs.]

CONTROVERSY n. 3 definitions

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.

Qualified for conversation; disposed to converse; sociable; free in discourse. While young, humane, conversable, and kind. Cowper.

CONVERSABLENESS n.

The quality of being conversable; disposition to converse; sociability.

CONVERSABLY adv.

In a conversable manner.

The state or quality of being conversant; habit of familiarity; familiar acquaintance; intimacy. [R.]

Conversance [R.]

CONVERSANT a. 4 definitions

ent or customary intercourse; familiary associated; intimately acquainted. I have been conversant with the first persons of the age. Dryden.

CONVERSANTLY adv.

In a familiar manner.

CONVERSATION n. 5 definitions

General course of conduct; behavior. [Archaic] Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel. Philip. i. 27.

CONVERSATIONAL a.

Pertaining to conversation; in the manner of one conversing; as, a conversational style. Thackeray.

CONVERSATIONALIST n.

A conversationist.

CONVERSATIONED a.

Acquainted with manners and deportment; behaved. [Obs.] Till she be better conversationed, . . . I'll keep As far from her as the gallows. Beau. & Fl.

CONVERSATIONISM n.

A word or phrase used in conversation; a colloqualism.