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e 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.

of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate. It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time. Barrow. 'Tis a needful fitness That we adjourn this court till further day. Shak.

To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated. Boyle.

tion of a subject in controversy, or of a plan proposed for adoption; earnest discussion; debate. A logical agitation of the matter. L'Estrange. The project now in agitation. Swift.

by which a speaker appeals to his hearers or opponents for their opinion on the point in debate. Walker.

Any place of public contest or exertion; any sphere of action; as, the arenaof debate; the arena of life.

Capable of being argued; admitting of debate.

To debate or discuss; to treat by reasoning; as, the counsel argued the cause before a full court; the cause was well argued.

Debate; discussion.

and indiscriminate assentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. Ld. Chesterfield.

One fitted for, or skilled in, intellectual contests; as, athletes of debate.

eeting, when opening it for business. (b) A person, when he is transgressing the rules of debate. -- To call to the bar, to admit to practice in courts of law. -- To call up. (a) To bring into view or recollection; as to call up the image of deceased friend. (b) To bring into action or discussion; to demand the consi…

To examine by discussion; to debate. An opinion that we are likely soon to canvass. Sir W. Hamilton.

Any subject of discussion or debate; matter; question; affair in general. What counsel give you in this weighty cause! Shak.

To end, terminate, or come to a period; as, the debate closed at six o'clock.

A method of putting an end to debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body. It is similar in effect to the previous question. It was first introduced into the British House of Commons in 1882. The French word clôture was originally applied to this proceeding.