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To dispute; to discuss. [Obs.] Wyclif.

imed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to altercate; to wrangle. Therefore disputed [reasoned, Rev. Ver .] he in synagogue with the Jews. Acts xvii. 17.

Admitting no dispute; incontrovertible. Bailey.

One who disputes, or who is given to disputes; a controvertist. Where is the disputer of this world 1 Cor. i. 20.

Undisputed.

mony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.

Caustic; bitter-tempered' sarcastic; as, acrimonious dispute, language, temper.

The contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to wrangle.

Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest. "Stormy altercations." Macaulay.

Hence; A double-dealer; one equally ready to act on either side in party disputes. The rest are hypocrites, ambidexters, so many turning pictures -- a lion on one side, a lamb on the other. Burton.

cond Epistle of Peter, the second and third Epistles of John, and the Revelation. The undisputed books are called the Homologoumena.

To hear and decide, as arbitrators; as, to choose to arbitrate a disputed case.

To contend in argument; to dispute; to reason; -- followed by with; as, you may argue with your friend without convincing him.

agreement; as, the parties have made an arrangement between themselves concerning their disputes; a satisfactory arrangement.

Governing or controlling influence; domination; power. An undisputed ascendency. Macaulay. Custom has an ascendency over the understanding. Watts.

One who rules with undisputed sway in any company or relation; a despot. The autocrat of the breakfast table. Holmes.

Fig.: The framework of anything. A bone of contention, a subject of contention or dispute. -- A bone to pick, something to investigate, or to busy one's self about; a dispute to be settled (with some one). -- Bone ash, the residue from calcined bones; -- used for making cupels, and for cleaning jewelry. -- Bone blac…

A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute. [R.] A brangle between him and his neighbor. Swift.

it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular; ironical. It is a dispute among the critics, whether burlesque poetry runs best in heroic verse, like that of the Dispensary, or in doggerel, like that of Hudibras. Addison.

A cloth of exceedingly fine texture, used by the ancients. It is disputed whether it was of cotton, linen, or silk. [Written also byss and byssin.]