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2601 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EVEN.8 (Noah Webster)
5. Equally favorable; on a level in advantage; fair. He met the enemy on even ground. The advocates meet on even ground in argument.
2602 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EVIDENCE.2 (Noah Webster)
… or arguments, furnish evidence of truth or falsehood.
2603 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXAMINE.4 (Noah Webster)
… weigh arguments and compare facts, with a view to form a correct opinion or judgment. Let us examine this proposition; let us examine this subject in all its …
2604 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXCEPTION.4 (Noah Webster)
3. An objection; that which is or may be offered in opposition to a rule, proposition, statement or allegation; with to; sometimes with against. He made some exceptions to the argument.
2605 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXCLUDE.5 (Noah Webster)
4. To except; not to comprehend or include in a privilege, grant, proposition, argument, description, order, species, genus, etc. in a general sense.
2606 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXHORT.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments to a good deed or to any laudable conduct or course of action.
2607 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXHORT.8 (Noah Webster)
EXHORT, v.i. To deliver exhortation; to use words or arguments to incite to good deeds.
2608 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXHORTING.1 (Noah Webster)
EXHORTING, ppr. Inciting to good deeds by words or arguments; encouraging; counseling.
2609 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXPATIATE.5 (Noah Webster)
2. To enlarge in discourse or writing; to be copious in argument or discussion. On important topics the orator thinks himself at liberty to expatiate.
2610 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXPOSTULATING.1 (Noah Webster)
EXPOSTULATING, ppr. Reasoning or urging arguments against any improper conduct.
2611 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXPOSTULATION.1 (Noah Webster)
EXPOSTULATION, n. Reasoning with a person in opposition to his conduct; the act of pressing on a person reasons or arguments against the impropriety of his conduct, and in some cases, demanding redress or urging reformation.
2612 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXTEND.12 (Noah Webster)
… your argument or proposition extend? Let our charities extend to the heathen.
2613 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FAIRNESS.7 (Noah Webster)
6. Openness; candor; freedom from disguise, insidiousness or prevarication; as the fairness of an argument.
2614 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FALL.111 (Noah Webster)
1. To let fall; to drop. And fall thy edgeless sword. I am willing to fall this argument.
2615 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FALLACIOUS.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Deceptive; deceiving; deceitful; wearing a false appearance; misleading; producing error or mistake; sophistical; applied to things only; as a fallacious argument or proposition; a fallacious appearance.
2616 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FALLACIOUSNESS.1 (Noah Webster)
FALLACIOUSNESS, n. Tendency to deceive or mislead; inconclusiveness; as the fallaciousness of an argument, or of appearances.
2617 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FALLACY.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind. Detect the fallacy of the argument.
2618 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FALLIBILITY.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Liableness to deceive; the quality of being fallible; uncertainty; possibility of being erroneous, or of leading to mistake; as the fallibility of an argument, of reasoning or of testimony.
2619 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FAR.19 (Noah Webster)
6. to a certain point, degree or distance. This argument is sound and logical, as far as it goes.
2620 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FAR-FETCHED.6 (Noah Webster)
So we say, far-fetched arguments; far-fetched rhymes; far-fetched analogy. [Far-fet, the same, is not used.]