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2721 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OBJECT.9 (Noah Webster)
OBJECT, v.i. To oppose in words or arguments; to offer reasons against. The council objected to the admission of the plaintiff’s witnesses.
2722 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OBJECTION.3 (Noah Webster)
2. That which is presented in opposition; adverse reason or argument. The defendant urged several objections to the plaintiff’s claims. The plaintiff has removed or overthrown those objections.
2723 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OBJECTOR.1 (Noah Webster)
OBJECTOR, n. One that objects; one that offers arguments or reasons in opposition to a proposition or measure.
2724 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OBSERVE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. To take notice or cognizance of by the intellect. We observe nice distinctions in arguments, or a peculiar delicacy of thought.
2725 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OBSERVE.14 (Noah Webster)
1. To remark. I have heard the gentleman’s arguments, and shall hereafter observe upon them.
2726 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OBSTINACY.2 (Noah Webster)
… persuasion, arguments or other means. Obstinacy may not always convey the idea of unreasonable or unjustifiable firmness; as when we say, soldiers fight …
2727 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OBSTINATE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Stubborn; pertinaciously adhering to an opinion or purpose; fixed firmly in resolution; not yielding to reason, arguments or other means.
2728 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OPERATION.5 (Noah Webster)
So we speak of the operation of motives, reasons or arguments on the mind, the operation of causes, etc.
2729 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OPPONENT.2 (Noah Webster)
… or argument. It is sometimes applied to the person that begins a dispute by raising objections to a tenet or doctrine, and is correlative to defendant or respondent …
2730 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OPPOSE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To set; against; to put in opposition, with a view to counterbalance or countervail, and thus to hinder defeat, destroy or prevent effect; as, to oppose one argument to another.
2731 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OPPOSE.4 (Noah Webster)
2. To act against; to resist, either by physical means, by arguments or other means. The army opposed the progress of the enemy, but without success. Several members of the house strenuously opposed the bill, but it passed.
2732 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OPPOSER.2 (Noah Webster)
1. One that opposes; an opponent in party, in principle, in controversy or argument. We speak of the opposers of public measures; the opposers of ecclesiastical discipline; an opposer of christianity or of orthodoxy.
2733 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ORATION.3 (Noah Webster)
… an argument at the bar, and from a speech before a deliberative assembly. The word is now applied chiefly to discourses pronounced on special occasions, as …
2734 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PARALOGISM.2 (Noah Webster)
… fallacious argument or false reasoning; an error committed in demonstration, when a consequence is drawn from principles which are false, or though true …
2735 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PERORATION.2 (Noah Webster)
The concluding part of an oration, in which the speaker recapitulates the principal points of his discourse or argument, and urges them with greater earnestness and force, with a view to make a deep impression on his hearers.
2736 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PERSUADE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To influence by argument, advice, intreaty or expostulation; to draw or incline the will to a determination by presenting motives to the mind.
2737 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PERSUADE.5 (Noah Webster)
2. To convince by argument, or reasons offered; or to convince by reasons suggested by reflection or deliberation, or by evidence presented in any manner to the mind.
2738 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PERSUADE.7 (Noah Webster)
3. To inculcate by argument or expostulation. [Little used.]
2739 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PERSUADED.1 (Noah Webster)
PERSUADED, pp. Influenced or drawn to an opinion or determination by argument, advice or reasons suggested; convinced; induced.
2740 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PERSUASION.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The act of persuading; the act of influencing the mind by arguments or reasons offered, or by any thing that moves the mind or passions, or inclines the will to a determination.