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2821 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RETORT.9 (Noah Webster)
1. The return of an argument, charge or incivility in reply; as the retort courteous.
2822 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RETRIBUTION.6 (Noah Webster)
It is a strong argument for a state of retribution hereafter, that in this world virtuous persons are very often unfortunate, and vicious persons prosperous.
2823 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ROOM.5 (Noah Webster)
3. Place for reception or admission of any thing. In this case, there is no room for doubt or for argument.
2824 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RUN.36 (Noah Webster)
22. To pass in thought, speech or practice; as, to run through a series of arguments; to run from one topic to another.
2825 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SAY.3 (Noah Webster)
… an argument, to say a speech, to say testimony.
2826 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SAY.15 (Noah Webster)
10. To argue; to allege by way of argument.
2827 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SCHOLASTIC.5 (Noah Webster)
… and argument. It has now fallen into contempt, except in some universities, where the charters require it to be taught.
2828 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SCHOOL.13 (Noah Webster)
Hence, school divinity is the divinity which discusses nice points, and proves every thing by argument.
2829 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SEE.28 (Noah Webster)
11. To perceive; to understand; to comprehend. I see the train of argument; I see his motives.
2830 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SEPARABILITY.2 (Noah Webster)
Separability is the greatest argument of real distinction. Glanville.
2831 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SHEER.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Pure; clear; separate from anything foreign; unmingled; as sheer ale. But this application is unusual. We say sheer argument, sheer wit, sheer falsehook, etc.
2832 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOLELY.1 (Noah Webster)
SOLELY, adv. Singly; alone; only; without another; as, to rest a cause solely on one argument; to rely solely on one’s own strength.
2833 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOLIDITY.4 (Noah Webster)
3. Moral firmness; soundness; strength; validity; truth; certainty; as opposed to weakness or fallaciounes; as the soildity of arguments or reasonig; the solidity of principles, truths or opinious.
2834 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOLIDNESS.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Soundness; strength; truth; validity; as of arguments, reasons, principles, etc.
2835 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOPHISM.1 (Noah Webster)
… fallacious argument; asubtilty in reasoning; an argument that is not supported by sound reasoning, or in which the inference is not justly deduced from the …
2836 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOPHISTER.4 (Noah Webster)
SOPHISTER, v.t. To maintain by a fallacious argument. [Not in use.]
2837 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOPHISTIC.1 (Noah Webster)
SOPHISTIC, SOPHISTICAL, a. Fallaciously subtil; not sound; as sophistical reasoning or argument.
2838 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SORITES.1 (Noah Webster)
SORITES, n. In logic, an argument where one proposition is accumulated on another. Thus, all men of revenge have their souls often uneasy. Uneasy souls are a plague to themselves. Now to be one’s own plague is folly in the extreme.
2839 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOUND.9 (Noah Webster)
8. Founded in truth; firm; strong; valid; solid; that cannot be overthrown or refuted; as sound reasoning; a sound argument; a sound objection; sound doctrine; sound principles.
2840 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOUNDNESS.4 (Noah Webster)
3. Firmness; strength; solidity; truth; as soundness of reasoning or argument, of doctrine or principles.