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11 words match “CONTROVERSIAL”

CONTROVERSIAL a.
Relating to, or consisting of, controversy; disputatious; polemical; as, controversial divinity. Whole libraries of controversial books. Macaulay.
CONTROVERSIALIST n.
ersy; a disputant. He [Johnson] was both intellectually and morally of the stuff of which controversialists are made. Macaulay.
CONTROVERSIALLY adv.
In a controversial manner.
CONTROVERSARY a.
Controversial. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
CONTROVERTER n.
One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist. Some controverters in divinity are like swaggerers in a tavern. B. Jonson.
CONTROVERTIST n.
One skilled in or given to controversy; a controversialist. How unfriendly is the controvertist to the discernment of the critic! Campbell.
DISPUTE n.
rbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial discussion; altercation; debate. Addicted more To contemplation and profound dispute. Milton.
ERISTIC; ERISTICAL a.
Controversial. [Archaic] A specimen of admirable special pleading in the court of eristic logic. Coleridge.
POLEMIC a. 2 definitions
Of or pertaining to controversy; maintaining, or involving, controversy; controversial; disputative; as, a polemic discourse or essay; polemic theology.
POLEMICAL a.
Polemic; controversial; disputatious. -- Po*lem"ic*al*ly, adv. Polemical and impertinent disputations. Jer. Taylor.
WARM v.
t; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal; to enliven. I formerly warmed my head with reading controversial writings. Pope. Bright hopes, that erst bosom warmed. Keble.