Search for: argument
2621 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FLEXIBILITY.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Easiness to be persuaded; the quality of yielding to arguments, persuasion or circumstances; ductility of mind; readiness to comply; facility; as flexibility of temper.
2622 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FLEXIBLE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Capable of yielding to intreaties, arguments or other moral force; that may be persuaded to compliance; not invincibly rigid; or obstinate; not inexorable.
2623 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FOR.39 (Noah Webster)
17. In quest of; in order to obtain; as, to search for arguments; to recur to antiquity for examples. See number 11.
2624 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FORCE.6 (Noah Webster)
5. Strength; moral power to convince the mind. There is great force in an argument.
2625 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FORCIBLE.6 (Noah Webster)
4. Powerful; acting with force; impressive; as forcible words or arguments.
2626 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FORMER.7 (Noah Webster)
3. Near the beginning; preceding; as the former part of a discourse or argument.
2627 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FRIVOLOUS.2 (Noah Webster)
Slight; trifling; trivial; of little weight, worth or importance; not worth notice; as a frivolous argument; a frivolous objection or pretext.
2628 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FUTILITY.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Triflingness; unimportance; want of weight or effect; as, to expose the futility of arguments.
2629 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GESTICULATION.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Gesture; a motion of the body or limbs in speaking, or in representing action or passion, and enforcing arguments and sentiments.
2630 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GESTURE.2 (Noah Webster)
… an argument or opinion. It consists chiefly in the actions or movements of the hands and face, and should be suited to the subject.
2631 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GIVE.53 (Noah Webster)
To give up, to resign; to quit; to yield as hopeless; as, to give up a cause; to give up the argument.
2632 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GO.19 (Noah Webster)
12. To apply; to be applicable. The argument goes to this point only; it goes to prove too much.
2633 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GO.45 (Noah Webster)
30. To proceed; to extend. This argument goes far towards proving the point. It goes a great way towards establishing the innocence of the accused.
2634 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GO.77 (Noah Webster)
In argument with men, a woman ever
2635 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GOOD.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Valid; sound; not weak, false or fallacious; as a good argument.
2636 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GRADATION.4 (Noah Webster)
3. Order; series; regular process by degrees or steps; as a gradation in argument or description.
2637 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GRATUITOUS.4 (Noah Webster)
2. Asserted or taken without proof; as a gratuitous argument or affirmation.
2638 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GREAT.7 (Noah Webster)
6. Important; weighty; as a great argument; a great truth; a great event; a thing of no great consequence; it is no great matter.
2639 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GROUND.11 (Noah Webster)
5. Foundation; that which supports any thing. This argument stands on defensible ground. Hence,
2640 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GROUND.32 (Noah Webster)
1. To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, cause, reason or principle; as arguments grounded on reason; faith grounded on scriptural evidence.