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137 words match “TROVER”

TROVER n. 2 definitions

The gaining possession of any goods, whether by finding or by other means.

To bend forward. [R.] Owen.

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

on; 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.

CONTROVERTIBLE a.

Capable of being controverted; disputable; admitting of question. -- Con`tro*ver"ti*bly, adv.

CONTROVERTIST n.

One skilled in or given to controversy; a controversialist. How unfriendly is the controvertist to the discernment of the critic! Campbell.

EXTROVERSION n.

The condition of being turned wrong side out; as, extroversion of the bladder. Dunglison.

INCONTROVERTIBILITY n.

The state or condition of being incontrovertible.

INCONTROVERTIBLE a.

Not controvertible; too clear or certain to admit of dispute; indisputable. Sir T. Browne. -- In*con`tro*ver"ti*ble*ness, n. -- In*con`tro*ver"ti*bly, adv.