Word Meanings - POLEMICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Polemic; controversial; disputatious. -- Po*lem"ic*al*ly, adv. Polemical and impertinent disputations. Jer. Taylor.
Related words: (words related to POLEMICAL)
- 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 - CONTROVERSIAL
Relating to, or consisting of, controversy; disputatious; polemical; as, controversial divinity. Whole libraries of controversial books. Macaulay. - TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in - CONTROVERSIALIST
One who carries on a controversy; a disputant. He was both intellectually and morally of the stuff of which controversialists are made. Macaulay. - POLEMIC
1. Of or pertaining to controversy; maintaining, or involving, controversy; controversial; disputative; as, a polemic discourse or essay; polemic theology. 2. Engaged in, or addicted to, polemics, or to controversy; disputations; as, a polemic - POLEMICAL
Polemic; controversial; disputatious. -- Po*lem"ic*al*ly, adv. Polemical and impertinent disputations. Jer. Taylor. - POLEMICS
The art or practice of disputation or controversy, especially on religious subjects; that branch of theological science which pertains to the history or conduct of ecclesiastical controversy. - POLEMICIST
A polemic. - IMPERTINENT
1. Not pertinent; not pertaining to the matter in hand; having no bearing on the subject; not to the point; irrelevant; inapplicable. Things that are impertinent to us. Tillotson. How impertinent that grief was which served no end! Jer. Taylor. - CONTROVERSIALLY
In a controversial manner. - IMPERTINENTLY
In an impertinent manner. "Not to betray myself impertinently." B. Jonson. - PHILOPOLEMIC; PHILOPOLEMICAL
Fond of polemics or controversy.