Word Meanings - CONTROVERTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Related words: (words related to CONTROVERTER)

• TAVERNER
  One who keeps a tavern. Chaucer. Camden.
• TAVERNING
  A feasting at taverns. "The misrule of our tavernings." Bp. Hall.
• WRITER
  1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer
• CONTROVERSIAL
  Relating to, or consisting of, controversy; disputatious; polemical; as, controversial divinity. Whole libraries of controversial books. Macaulay.
• TAVERNMAN
  The keeper of a tavern; also, a tippler.
• WRITERSHIP
  The office of a writer.
• CONTROVERSIALIST
  One who carries on a controversy; a disputant. He was both intellectually and morally of the stuff of which controversialists are made. Macaulay.
• TAVERN
  A public house where travelers and other transient guests are accomodated with rooms and meals; an inn; a hotel; especially, in modern times, a public house licensed to sell liquor in small quantities.
• DIVINITY
  1. The state of being divine; the nature or essence of God; deity; godhead. When he attributes divinity to other things than God, it is only a divinity by way of participation. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. The Deity; the Supreme Being; God.
• DIVINITY CALF
  Calf stained dark brown and worked without gilding, often used for theological books.
• CONTROVERSIALLY
  In a controversial manner.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• STORY-WRITER
  1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
• UNDERWRITER
  One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer.
• INDIVINITY
  Want or absence of divine power or of divinity. Sir T. Browne.
• NEWS-WRITER
  One who gathered news for, and wrote, news-letters. Macaulay.
• TYPEWRITER
  1. An instrument for writing by means of type, a typewheel, or the like, in which the operator makes use of a sort of keyboard, in order to obtain printed impressions of the characters upon paper. 2. One who uses such an instrument.