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2481 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BELIEVE.3 (Noah Webster)
When we believe upon the authority of reasoning, arguments, or a concurrence of facts and circumstances, we rest our conclusions upon their strength or probability, their agreement with our own experience, etc.
2482 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BOLT.9 (Noah Webster)
I hate when vice can bolt her arguments.
2483 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BRING.8 (Noah Webster)
… or argument. In this sense, it is nearly equivalent to persuade, prevail upon, or induce. The same process is effected by custom, and other causes. Habit brings …
2484 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CARRY.20 (Noah Webster)
He thought it carried something of argument in it, to prove that doctrine.
2485 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CAVIL.4 (Noah Webster)
2. To advance futile objections, or to frame sophisms, for the sake of victory in an argument.
2486 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CAVILOUS.1 (Noah Webster)
CAVILOUS, a. Captious; unfair in argument; apt to object without good reason.
2487 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CIRCLE.9 (Noah Webster)
… of argument, when the same terms are proved in orbem by the same terms, and the parts of the syllogism alternately by each other, directly and indirectly; or …
2488 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CLEARNESS.5 (Noah Webster)
4. Distinctness; perspicuity; luminousness; as the clearness of reason, of views, of arguments, of explanations.
2489 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CLINCH.3 (Noah Webster)
2. To fix or fasten; to make firm; as, to clinch an argument.
2490 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CLOSE.47 (Noah Webster)
15. Full to the point; home; pressing; as a close argument; bring the argument close to the question.
2491 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COGENCY.1 (Noah Webster)
COGENCY, n. Force; strength; power of compelling; literally, urgency, or driving. It is used chiefly of moral subjects, and in relation to force or pressure on the mid; as the cogency of motives or arguments.
2492 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COGENT.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Urgent; pressing on the mind; forcible; powerful; not easily resisted; as a cogent reason, or argument.
2493 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COHERE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. To be well connected; to follow regularly in the natural order; to be suited in connection; as the parts of a discourse, or as arguments in a train of reasoning.
2494 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COMBAT.11 (Noah Webster)
2. To contend against; to oppose; to resist; as, to combat arguments or opinions.
2495 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COMBATANT.5 (Noah Webster)
3. A person who contends with another in argument, or controversy.
2496 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COMBATING.1 (Noah Webster)
COMBATING, ppr. Striving to resist; fighting; opposing by force or by argument.
2497 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COMPARE.2 (Noah Webster)
… and arguments; to compare pleasure with pain.
2498 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CONCLUDE.8 (Noah Webster)
3. To collect by reasoning; to infer, as from premises; to close an argument by inferring.
2499 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CONCLUDE.14 (Noah Webster)
6. To stop or restrain, or as in law, to estop from further argument or proceedings; to oblige or bind, as by authority or by ones own argument or concession; generally in the passive.
2500 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CONCLUSION.3 (Noah Webster)
2. The close of an argument, debate or reasoning; inference that ends the discussion; final result.