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854 words match “ROVE”

ROVE v. 11 definitions

by sailing, walking, riding, flying, or otherwise. For who has power to walk has power to rove. Arbuthnot.

ROVER n. 6 definitions

t Pompey the Great deserveth honor more justly for scouring the seas, and taking from the rovers 846 sail of ships. Holland.

To bend forward. [R.] Owen.

APPROVE v. 6 definitions

To show to be real or true; to prove. [Obs.] Wouldst thou approve thy constancy Approve First thy obedience. Milton.

APPROVEDLY adv.

So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.

APPROVEMENT n. 3 definitions

Approbation. I did nothing without your approvement. Hayward.

APPROVER n. 4 definitions

One who approves. Formerly, one who made proof or trial.

BERING SEA CONTROVERSY n.

A controversy (1886 --93) between Great Britain and the United States as to the right of Canadians not licensed by the United States to carry on seal fishing in the Bering Sea, over which the United States claimed jurisdiction as a mare clausum. A court of arbitration, meeting in Paris in 1893, decided against the clai…

CONTROVERSAL a. 2 definitions

Turning or looking opposite ways. [Obs.] The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton.

CONTROVERSARY a.

Controversial. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

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

n; 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.

To make matter of controversy; to dispute or oppose by reasoning; to contend against in words or writings; to contest; to debate. Some controverted points had decided according to the sense of the best jurists. Macaulay.

CONTROVERTER n.

One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist. Some controverters in divinity are like swaggerers in a tavern. B. Jonson.