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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.

 

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