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2521 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CONTEST.7 (Noah Webster)
The difficulty of an argument adds to the pleasure of contesting with it, when there are hopes of victory.
2522 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CONTEST.12 (Noah Webster)
2. Dispute; debate; violent controversy; strife in argument.
2523 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CORD.7 (Noah Webster)
The cords of vanity are worldly vanities and pleasures, profit or preferment; or vain and deceitful arguments and pretenses, which draw men to sin. Isaiah 5:18 .
2524 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CORROBORATION.1 (Noah Webster)
CORROBORATION, n. The act of strengthening, or confirming; addition of strength, assurance, or security; confirmation; as the corroboration of an argument, or of intelligence.
2525 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COUCH.25 (Noah Webster)
This great argument for a future state, which St. Paul hath couched int he words read.
2526 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COURSE.9 (Noah Webster)
4. A passing or process; the progress of any thing; as the course of an argument, or of a debate; a course of thought or reflexion.
2527 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CRITICISE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To examine and judge critically; to judge with attention to beauties and faults; as, to criticise on a literary work, on an argument or discourse.
2528 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CROCODILE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. In rhetoric, a captious and sophistical argument contrived to draw one into a snare.
2529 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CUMBER.3 (Noah Webster)
A variety of frivolous arguments cumbers the memory to no purpose.
2530 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CUMULATIVE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. That augments by addition; that is added to something else. In law, that augments, as evidence, facts or arguments of the same kind.
2531 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DEAF.4 (Noah Webster)
3. In a metaphorical sense, not listening; not regarding; not moved, persuaded or convinced; rejecting; as deaf to reason or arguments. Men are deaf to the calls of the gospel.
2532 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DEBATE.2 (Noah Webster)
… or arguments; discussion for elucidating truth; strife in argument or reasoning, between persons of different opinions, each endeavoring to prove his own …
2533 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DEBATE.6 (Noah Webster)
4. Debate or debates, the published report of arguments for and against a measure; as, the debates in the convention are printed.
2534 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DEBATE.7 (Noah Webster)
DEBATE, v.t. To contend for in words or arguments; to strive to maintain a cause by reasoning; to dispute; to discuss; to argue; to contest, as opposing parties; as, the question was debated till a late hour.
2535 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DEBATE.10 (Noah Webster)
1. To debate on or in, to deliberate; to discuss or examine different arguments in the mind.
2536 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DEBATING.1 (Noah Webster)
DEBATING, ppr. Disputing; discussing; contending by arguments.
2537 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DECISIVENESS.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The power of an argument or of evidence to terminate a difference or doubt; conclusiveness.
2538 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DECLAMATION.2 (Noah Webster)
… or argument; as, mere declamation; empty declamation.
2539 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DECLAMATORY.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Appealing to the passions; noisy; rhetorical without solid sense or argument; as a declamatory way or style.
2540 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DEFEND.7 (Noah Webster)
4. To vindicate; to assert; to uphold; to maintain uninjured, by force or by argument; as, to defend our cause; to defend rights and privileges; to defend reputation.