Word Meanings - COLLITIGANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Disputing or wrangling. -- n.

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• WRANGLE
  Etym: 1. To argue; to debate; to dispute. 2. To dispute angrily; to quarrel peevishly and noisily; to brawl; to altercate. "In spite of occasional wranglings." Macaulay. For a score of kingdoms you should wrangle. Shak. He did not know what it
• 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.
• 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
• DISPUTANT
  Disputing; engaged in controversy. Milton.
• DISPUTISON
  Dispute; discussion. Chaucer.
• WRANGLER
  1. An angry disputant; one who disputes with heat or peevishness. "Noisy and contentious wranglers." I. Watts. 2. One of those who stand in the first rank of honors in the University of Cambridge, England. They are called, according to their rank,
• DISPUTER
  One who disputes, or who is given to disputes; a controvertist. Where is the disputer of this world 1 Cor. i. 20.
• DISPUTATIVE
  Disposed to dispute; inclined to cavil or to reason in opposition; as, a disputative temper. I. Watts.
• WRANGLESOME
  Contentious; quarrelsome. Halliwell.
• WRANGLERSHIP
  The honor or position of being a wrangler at the University of Cambridge, England.
• 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.,
• DISPUTABLENESS
  State of being disputable.
• DISPUTELESS
  Admitting no dispute; incontrovertible. Bailey.
• 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,
• INDISPUTED
  Undisputed.
• UNDISPUTABLE
  Indisputable. Addison. -- Un*dis"pu*ta*ble*ness, n.
• INDISPUTABILITY
  Indisputableness.