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Of or pertaining to legal disputes. Nor brothers cite to the litigious bar. Young.

pposed by certain Rabbinical writers to be indestructible. Its location was a matter of dispute. Brande & C.

Mode, or manner, of living; hence, a temporary arrangement of affairs until disputed matters can be settled.

A disputer of a mooted case.

Hence: Kind, sort; character; quality. A dispute of this nature caused mischief. Dryden.

A disputer; a gainsayer. [Obs.] Bale.

Exposed; subject; open; liable. [Obs.] "Obvious to dispute." Milton.

Quarrel; dispute; debate; strife; -- chiefly in the phraze at odds. Set them into confounding odds. Shak. I can not speak Any beginning to this peevish odds. Shak. At odds, in dispute; at variance. "These squires at odds did fall." Spenser. "He flashes into one gross crime or other, that sets us all at odds." Shak. --…

To render universal; to enlarge. [R.] Omnify the disputed point into a transcendent, and you may defy the opponent to lay hold of it. Coleridge.

Origin; authorship. The paternity of these novels was . . . disputed. Sir W. Scott.

A Shakespearean word of disputed meaning; perh., "abounding in marsh marigolds." Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims. Shak.

; as, to play cannon upon a fortification; to play a trump. First Peace and Silence all disputes control, Then Order plays the soul. Herbert.

short and plain. Chaucer. In point of religion and in point of honor. Bacon. Shalt thou dispute With Him the points of liberty Milton.

To play the politician; to dispute as politicians do. [Obs.] Milton.

A preliminary inquiry and determination about something which belongs to a matter in dispute.

fference; a disagreement; an antagonism in opinion, feeling, or conduct; esp., an angry dispute, contest, or strife; a brawl; an altercation; as, he had a quarrel with his father about expenses. I will bring a sword upon you that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant. Lev. xxvi. 25. On open seas their quarrels they d…

Discussion; debate; hence, objection; dispute; doubt; as, the story is true beyond question; he obeyed without question. There arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying. John iii. 25. It is to be to question, whether it be lawful for Christian princes to make an invasive war simply…

Without tumult, alarm, dispute, or disturbance; peaceably; as, to live quietly; to sleep quietly.

One to whom a thing is referred; a person to whom a matter in dispute has been referred, in order that he may settle it.

The act of submitting a matter in dispute to the judgment of one or more persons for decision. (b) (Equity)