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2701 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MAINTAIN.8 (Noah Webster)
6. To support by intellectual powers, or by force of reason; as, to maintain an argument.
2702 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MAINTAIN.10 (Noah Webster)
8. To support by assertion or argument; to affirm.
2703 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MAINTAINABLE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. That may be defended by argument or just claim; vindicable; defensible.
2704 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MAKE.72 (Noah Webster)
1. To prove; to evince; to establish by evidence or argument. The plaintiff, not being able to make out his case, withdrew the suit.
2705 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MAKE.94 (Noah Webster)
1. To contribute; to have effect. This argument makes nothing in his favor. He believes wrong to be right, and right to be wrong, when it makes for his advantage.
2706 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MAKE.101 (Noah Webster)
To make against, to tend to injury. This argument makes against his cause.
2707 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MEDIUM.2 (Noah Webster)
1. In logic, the mean or middle term of a syllogism, or the middle term in an argument, being the reason why a thing is affirmed or denied.
2708 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. METHODIC.1 (Noah Webster)
… of arguments; a methodical treatise; methodical accounts.
2709 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MIGHTILY.6 (Noah Webster)
3. With great strength of argument.
2710 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MINOR.2 (Noah Webster)
… or arguments. In the latter phrases, minor is equivalent to small, petty, inconsiderable, not principal, important or weighty.
2711 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MOOD.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The form of an argument; the regular determination of propositions according to their quantity, as universal or particular, and their quality, as affirmative or negative.
2712 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MORAL.8 (Noah Webster)
Things of a moral nature may be proved by moral arguments.
2713 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MORAL.13 (Noah Webster)
… , moral arguments, moral persuasion, moral certainty, moral force; which operate on the mind.
2714 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MOTIVE.1 (Noah Webster)
MOTIVE, a. [See the Noun.] Causing motion; having power to move or tending to move; as a motive argument; motive power.
2715 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MOUTH.16 (Noah Webster)
12. Freedom and boldness of speech; force of argument. Luke 21:15 .
2716 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MUTATION.3 (Noah Webster)
The vicissitude or mutations in the superior globe are no fit matter for this present argument.
2717 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NECESSARY.4 (Noah Webster)
3. Unavoidable; as a necessary inference or consequence from facts or arguments.
2718 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NEGATION.5 (Noah Webster)
3. Argument drawn from denial.
2719 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NOBILITY.6 (Noah Webster)
When I took up Boccace unawares, I fell on the same argument of preferring virtue to nobility of blood and titles, in the story of Sigismunda.
2720 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NOTE.21 (Noah Webster)
14. Notes, plu. a writing; a written discourse; applied equally to minutes or heads of a discourse or argument, or to a discourse fully written. The advocate often has notes to assist his memory, and clergymen preach with notes or without them.