Word Meanings - DISPUTANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Disputing; engaged in controversy. Milton.

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• DISPUTABLE
  1. Capable of being disputed; liable to be called in question, controverted, or contested; or doubtful certainty or propriety; controvertible; as, disputable opinions, propositions, points, or questions. Actions, every one of which is
• DISPUTATION
  1. The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal contest respecting the truth of some fact, opinion, proposition, or argument. 2. A rhetorical exercise in which
• DISPUTACITY
  Proneness to dispute. Bp. Ward.
• DISPUTE
  To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to altercate; to wrangle. (more info) from L. disputare, disputatum; dis- + putare to clean; hence, fig.,
• DISPUTATIOUS
  Inclined to dispute; apt to civil or controvert; characterized by dispute; as, a disputatious person or temper. The Christian doctrine of a future life was no recommendation of the new religion to the wits and philosophers of that disputations
• ENGAGING
  Tending to draw the attention or affections; attractive; as, engaging manners or address. -- En*ga"ging*ly, adv. -- En*ga"ging*ness, n. Engaging and disengaging gear or machinery, that in which, or by means of which, one part is alternately brought
• ENGAGEDNESS
  The state of being deeply interested; earnestness; zeal.
• DISPUTANT
  Disputing; engaged in controversy. Milton.
• DISPUTISON
  Dispute; discussion. Chaucer.
• DISPUTER
  One who disputes, or who is given to disputes; a controvertist. Where is the disputer of this world 1 Cor. i. 20.
• ENGAGE
  To come into gear with; as, the teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another, or one part of a clutch engages the other part. (more info) Etym: 1. To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as
• ENGAGER
  One who enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety. Several sufficient citizens were engagers. Wood.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• DISPUTATIVE
  Disposed to dispute; inclined to cavil or to reason in opposition; as, a disputative temper. I. Watts.
• ENGAGEDLY
  With attachment; with interest; earnestly.
• ENGAGED
  1. Occupied; employed; busy. 2. Pledged; promised; especially, having the affections pledged; promised in marriage; affianced; betrothed. 3. Greatly interested; of awakened zeal; earnest. 4. Involved; esp., involved in a hostile encounter; as,
• DISPUTABLENESS
  State of being disputable.
• DISPUTELESS
  Admitting no dispute; incontrovertible. Bailey.
• ENGAGEMENT
  An action; a fight; a battle. In hot engagement with the Moors. Dryden. (more info) 1. The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest. 2. The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif., a pledge to take
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• INDISPUTABLE
  Not disputable; incontrovertible; too evident to admit of dispute. Syn. -- Incontestable; unquestionable; incontrovertible; undeniable; irrefragable; certain; positive; undoubted; sure; infallible. -- In*dis"pu*ta*ble*ness, n. -- In*dis"pu*ta*bly,
• GREENGAGE
  A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage.
• INDISPUTED
  Undisputed.
• BERING SEA CONTROVERSY
  A controversy 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
• DISENGAGING
  Loosing; setting free; detaching. Disengaging machinery. See under Engaging.
• PREENGAGEMENT
  Prior engagement, obligation, or attachment, as by contract, promise, or affection. My preëngagements to other themes were not unknown to those for whom I was to write. Boyle.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• DRENGAGE
  The tenure by which a drench held land. Burrill.