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To engage in combat for; to strive for. Volunteers . . . thronged to serve under his banner, and the cause of religion was debated with the same ardor in Spain as on the plains of Palestine. Prescott.

Full of contention; contentious; quarrelsome. [Obs.] Spenser.

With contention. [Obs.]

Controversy; deliberation; debate. [R.] A serious question and debatement with myself. Milton.

One who debates; one given to argument; a disputant; a controvertist. Debate where leisure serves with dull debaters. Shak.

The act of discussing or arguing; discussion. Debating society or club, a society or club for the purpose of debate and improvement in extemporaneous speaking.

In the manner of a debate.

Act of lying down; decumbence. [Obs.] Evelyn.

To taste; to take a sip of; to dabble in. [Obs.]

Act of tasting; a slight trial. [Obs.] Berkeley.

To evict; to remove. [Obs.] Foxe.

The act of deturbating. [Obs.]

Passing over the borders. [R.] Mitford.

, or inexpedient; feeling of censure. We have ever expressed the most unqualified disapprobation of all the steps. Burke.

Containing disapprobation; serving to disapprove.

Act of disturbing; disturbance. [Obs.] Daniel.

elic, which denotes intention or purpose; thus the phrase so that it was fulfilled," is ecbatic; if rendered "in order that it might be." etc., is telic.

Weak or lame in the loins. [Obs.]

To bathe; to imbathe.

To furnish with battlements; to fortify as with battlements. [Archaic] To embattail and to wall about thy cause With iron-worded proof. Tennyson.