Word Meanings - DEBATER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who debates; one given to argument; a disputant; a controvertist. Debate where leisure serves with dull debaters. Shak.

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• LEISURED
  Having leisure. "The leisured classes." Gladstone.
• WHEREIN
  1. In which; in which place, thing, time, respect, or the like; -- used relatively. Her clothes wherein she was clad. Chaucer. There are times wherein a man ought to be cautious as well as innocent. Swift. 2. In what; -- used interrogatively. Yet
• WHEREVER
  At or in whatever place; wheresoever. He can not but love virtue wherever it is. Atterbury.
• WHERETO
  1. To which; -- used relatively. "Whereto we have already attained." Phil. iii. 16. Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day. Shak. 2. To what; to what end; -- used interrogatively.
• WHEREAS
  1. Considering that; it being the case that; since; -- used to introduce a preamble which is the basis of declarations, affirmations, commands, requests, or like, that follow. 2. When in fact; while on the contrary; the case being in truth that;
• DEBATEMENT
  Controversy; deliberation; debate. A serious question and debatement with myself. Milton.
• WHERE'ER
  Wherever; -- a contracted and poetical form. Cowper.
• WHEREINTO
  1. Into which; -- used relatively. Where is that palace whereinto foul things Sometimes intrude not Shak. The brook, whereinto he loved to look. Emerson. 2. Into what; -- used interrogatively.
• WHERESOE'ER
  Wheresoever. "Wheresoe'er they rove." Milton.
• WHERETHROUGH
  Through which. "Wherethrough that I may know." Chaucer. Windows . . . wherethrough the sun Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee. Shak.
• DEBATER
  One who debates; one given to argument; a disputant; a controvertist. Debate where leisure serves with dull debaters. Shak.
• WHERESO
  Wheresoever.
• WHEREUNTO
  See WHERETO
• DISPUTANT
  Disputing; engaged in controversy. Milton.
• WHEREUPON
  Upon which; in consequence of which; after which. The townsmen mutinied and sent to Essex; whereupon he came thither. Clarendon.
• ARGUMENTIZE
  To argue or discuss. Wood.
• ARGUMENTATIVE
  1. Consisting of, or characterized by, argument; containing a process of reasoning; as, an argumentative discourse. 2. Adductive as proof; indicative; as, the adaptation of things to their uses is argumentative of infinite wisdom in the Creator.
• ARGUMENTAL
  Of, pertaining to, or containing, argument; argumentative.
• LEISURE
  1. Freedom from occupation or business; vacant time; time free from employment. The desire of leisure is much more natural than of business and care. Sir W. Temple. 2. Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence,
• WHEREFORM
  From which; from which or what place. Tennyson.
• WHER; WHERE
  Whether. Piers Plowman. Men must enquire , Wher she be wise or sober or dronkelewe. Chaucer.
• EVERYWHERENESS
  Ubiquity; omnipresence. Grew.
• EVERYWHERE
  In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether.
• REARGUMENT
  An arguing over again, as of a motion made in court.
• ALLWHERE
  Everywhere.
• EACHWHERE
  Everywhere. The sky eachwhere did show full bright and fair. Spenser.
• ELSEWHERE
  1. In any other place; as, these trees are not to be found elsewhere. 2. In some other place; in other places, indefinitely; as, it is reported in town and elsewhere.
• ANYWHERE
  In any place. Udall.