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2461 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ARGUING.2 (Noah Webster)
ARGUING, n. Reasoning; argumentation.
2462 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ARGUMENT.1 (Noah Webster)
ARGUMENT, n. [L. argumentum.]
2463 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ARGUMENT.6 (Noah Webster)
5. A debate or discussion; a series of reasoning; as, an argument was had before the court, in which argument, all the reasons were urged.
2464 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ARGUMENTAL.1 (Noah Webster)
ARGUMENTAL, a. Belonging to argument; consisting in argument.
2465 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ARGUMENTATION.1 (Noah Webster)
ARGUMENTATION, n. Reasoning; the act of reasoning; the act of inventing or forming reasons, making inductions, drawing conclusions, and applying them to the …
2466 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ARGUMENTATIVE.1 (Noah Webster)
ARGUMENTATIVE, a.
2467 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ARGUMENTATIVE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Consisting of argument; containing a process of reasoning; as an argumentative discourse.
2468 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ARGUMENTATIVE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Showing reasons for; as, the adaptation of things to their uses is argumentative of infinite wisdom in the Creator.
2469 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ARGUMENTATIVELY.1 (Noah Webster)
ARGUMENTATIVELY, adv. In an argumentative manner.
2470 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ARTIFICIAL.6 (Noah Webster)
Artificial arguments, in rhetoric, are arguments invented by the speaker, in distinction from laws, authorities and the like, which are called inartificial arguments of proofs.
2471 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ASSAIL.4 (Noah Webster)
3. To attack with arguments, censure, abuse, or criticism, with a view to injure, bring into disrepute, or overthrow.
2472 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ASSAULT.8 (Noah Webster)
3. To attack by words, arguments or unfriendly measures, with a view to shake, impair or overthrow; as, to assault a character, the laws or the administration.
2473 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ASSUMPTION.6 (Noah Webster)
4. A consequence drawn from the propositions of which an argument is composed.
2474 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BACKWARD.15 (Noah Webster)
2. Slow; sluggish; dilatory. The mind is backward to undergo the fatigue of weighing every argument.
2475 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BAFFLE.2 (Noah Webster)
Fashionable follies baffle argument.
2476 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BALANCE.5 (Noah Webster)
3. Figuratively, an impartial state of the mind, in deliberating; or a just estimate of the reasons and arguments on both sides of a question, which gives to each its due weight, or force and importance.
2477 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BEAT.16 (Noah Webster)
Also, to lower the price by importunity or argument.
2478 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BEGGAR.3 (Noah Webster)
2. One who assumes in argument what he does not prove.
2479 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BELIEF.2 (Noah Webster)
… , or arguments and reasons furnished by our own minds; as the belief of our senses; a train of reasoning may result in belief. Belief is opposed to knowledge and …
2480 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BELIEVE.2 (Noah Webster)
… reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by other circumstances, than personal knowledge. When we believe upon the authority of another, we always …