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2541 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DEFENDER.1 (Noah Webster)
DEFENDER, n. One who defends by oppostition; one who maintains, supports, protects or vindicates; an assertor; a vindicator, either by arms or by arguments; a champion or an advocate.
2542 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DEFY.3 (Noah Webster)
2. To dare; to brave; to offer to hazard a conflict by manifesting a contempt of opposition, attack or hostile force; as, to defy the arguments of an opponent; to defy the power of the magistrate.
2543 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DELIBERATE.1 (Noah Webster)
… of arguments, or the probable consequences of a measure, in order to a choice or decision; to pause and consider. A wise prince will deliberate before he wages …
2544 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DELIBERATE.5 (Noah Webster)
1. Weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; applies to persons; as a deliberate judge or counselor.
2545 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DELIBERATENESS.1 (Noah Webster)
DELIBERATENESS, n. Calm consideration; circumspection; due attention to the arguments for and against a measure; caution.
2546 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DEMONSTRATIVE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Showing or proving by certain evidence; having the power of demonstration; invincibly conclusive; as a demonstrative argument, or demonstrative reasoning.
2547 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DERIVABLE.4 (Noah Webster)
3. That may be drawn, as from premises; deducible; as an argument derivable from facts or preceding propositions.
2548 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DEVISE.2 (Noah Webster)
… devise arguments.
2549 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DIALECTICAL.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Logical; argumental.
2550 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DIGRESS.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Literally, to step or go from the way or road; hence, to depart or wander from the main subject, design or tenor of a discourse, argument or narration; used only of speaking or writing.
2551 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DIGRESS.3 (Noah Webster)
In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition, as often as a man varies the signification of any term.
2552 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DIGRESSION.3 (Noah Webster)
2. The part or passage of a discourse, argument or narration, which deviates from the main subject, tenor or design, but which may have some relation to it, or be of use to it.
2553 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DILEMMA.2 (Noah Webster)
… , an argument equally conclusive by contrary suppositions. A young rhetorician said to an old sophist; Instruct me in pleading, and I will pay you, when I gain …
2554 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DINT.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Force; violence; power exerted; as, to win by dint of arms, by dint of war, by dint of argument or importunity.
2555 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISCONCERT.3 (Noah Webster)
2. To unsettle the mind; to discompose; to disturb; to confuse. An unexpected question may disconcert the ablest advocate in his argument.
2556 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISCOUNTENANCE.4 (Noah Webster)
2. To discourage; to check; to restrain by frowns, censure, arguments, opposition, or cold treatment. The good citizen will discountenance vice by every lawful means.
2557 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISCURSIVE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Argumentative; reasoning; proceeding regularly from premises to consequences; sometimes written discursive. Whether brutes have a kind of discursive faculty.
2558 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISCURSIVELY.1 (Noah Webster)
DISCURSIVELY, adv. Argumentatively; in the form of reasoning or argument.
2559 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISCURSIVENESS.1 (Noah Webster)
DISCURSIVENESS, n. Range or gradation of argument.
2560 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISCURSORY.1 (Noah Webster)
DISCURSORY, a. Argumental; rational.