Ellen G. White Writings

2681 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INVENTION.7 (Noah Webster)

6. In rhetoric, the finding and selecting of arguments to prove and illustrate the point in view.

2682 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INVESTIGATION.1 (Noah Webster)

… by argument and discussion. Thus we speak of the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge, the moralist …

2683 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. IRREFRAGABLE.2 (Noah Webster)

That cannot be refuted or overthrown; incontestable; undeniable; as an irrefragable argument; irrefragable reason or evidence.

2684 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. IRRELEVANCY.1 (Noah Webster)

IRRELEVANCY, n. [from irrelevant.] Inapplicability; the quality of not being applicable, or of not serving to aid and support; as the irrelevancy of an argument or of testimony to a case in question.

2685 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. IRRELEVANT.1 (Noah Webster)

IRRELEVANT, a. [L. elevo, levo, to raise.] Not relevant; not applicable or pertinent; not serving to support. We call evidence, testimony and arguments irrelevant to a cause, when they are inapplicable to it, or do not serve so support it.

2686 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. JUDGMENT.1 (Noah Webster)

… and arguments, to ascertain propriety and justice; or the process of examining the relations between one proposition and another.

2687 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. JUDGMENT.3 (Noah Webster)

2. The determination of the mind, formed from comparing the relations of ideas, or the comparison of facts and arguments. In the formation of our judgments, we should be careful to weigh and compare all the facts connected with the subject.

2688 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. JUSTIFICATION.2 (Noah Webster)

… and arguments in justification of the prisoner’s conduct. Our disobedience to God’s commands admits no justification.

2689 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LABOR.33 (Noah Webster)

2. To prosecute with effort; to urge; as, to labor a point or argument.

2690 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LAMENESS.3 (Noah Webster)

2. Imperfection; weakness; as the lameness of an argument or of a description.

2691 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LEGITIMATE.3 (Noah Webster)

2. Genuine; real; proceeding from a pure source; not false or spurious; as legitimate arguments or inferences.

2692 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LENGTH.11 (Noah Webster)

7. Extent; as the length of a discourse, essay, or argument.

2693 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LENGTHY.1 (Noah Webster)

LENGTHY, a. Being long or moderately long; not short; not brief; applied mostly to moral subjects, as to discourses, writings, arguments, proceedings, etc.; as a lengthy sermon; a lengthy dissertation; a lengthy detail.