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2561 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISCUSS.3 (Noah Webster)
… by argument; to clear of objections and difficulties, with a view to find or illustrate truth; to sift; to examine by disputation; to ventilate; to reason on, for …
2562 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISCUSSING.1 (Noah Webster)
DISCUSSING, ppr. Dispersing; resolving; scattering; debating; agitating; examining by argument.
2563 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISCUSSION.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Debate; disquisition; the agitation of a point or subject with a view to elicit truth; the treating of a subject by argument, to clear it of difficulties, and separate truth from falsehood.
2564 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISPROOF.1 (Noah Webster)
DISPROOF, n. [dis and proof.] Confutation; refutation; a proving to be false or erroneous; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a fact, argument, principle or allegation.
2565 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISPROVE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; as, to disprove an assertion, a statement, an argument, a proposition.
2566 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISPUTABLE.1 (Noah Webster)
… , propositions, arguments, points, cases, questions, etc.
2567 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISPUTATION.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal contest, respecting the truth of some fact, opinion, proposition or argument.
2568 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISPUTE.2 (Noah Webster)
… in argument; to reason or argue in opposition; to debate; to altercate; and to dispute violently is to wrangle. Paul disputed with the Jews int he synagogue. The …
2569 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISPUTE.5 (Noah Webster)
… by arguments or statements; to attempt to prove to be false, unfounded or erroneous; to controvert; to attempt to overthrow by reasoning. We dispute assertions …
2570 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISPUTE.10 (Noah Webster)
… by arguments; an attempt to prove and maintain ones own opinions or claims, by arguments or statements, in opposition to the opinions, arguments or claims …
2571 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISPUTED.1 (Noah Webster)
DISPUTED, pp. Contested; opposed by words or arguments; litigated.
2572 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISPUTING.1 (Noah Webster)
DISPUTING, ppr. Contending by words or arguments; controverting.
2573 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISPUTING.2 (Noah Webster)
DISPUTING, n. The act of contending by words or arguments; controversy; altercation.
2574 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISQUISITION.1 (Noah Webster)
… , by arguments, or discussion of the facts and circumstances that may elucidate truth; as a disquistion on government or morals; a disquistion concerning …
2575 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISSUASIVE.2 (Noah Webster)
… . Reason, argument, or counsel, employed to deter one from a measure or purpose; that which is used or which tends to divert the mind from any purpose or pursuit …
2576 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISTINCTNESS.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Nice discrimination; whence, clearness; precision; as, he stated his arguments with great distinctness.
2577 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DRAW.29 (Noah Webster)
24. To deduce; as, to draw arguments from facts, or inferences from circumstantial evidence.
2578 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DRAW.52 (Noah Webster)
A dispute, in which every thing is drawn in, to give color to the argument.
2579 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DRIFT.5 (Noah Webster)
4. Course of any thing; tendency; aim; main force; as the drift of reasoning or argument; the drift of a discourse.
2580 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DRIVE.15 (Noah Webster)
11. To urge; to press; as, to drive an argument.