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2841 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPEAK.16 (Noah Webster)
… an argument, a sermon or a story.]
2842 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPECIOUS.3 (Noah Webster)
… specious argument; a specious objection; specious deeds. Temptation is of greater danger, because it is covered with the specious names of good nature, good …
2843 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STAND.123 (Noah Webster)
… an argument, when he is able to maintain it, or is not refuted.
2844 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STAY.21 (Noah Webster)
I was willing to stay my reader on an argument that appeared to me to be new.
2845 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STEEL.14 (Noah Webster)
Lies well steeld with weighty arguments.
2846 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STIFF.9 (Noah Webster)
It is a shame to stand stiff in a foolish argument.
2847 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STRENGTH.13 (Noah Webster)
… an argument, produces conviction, or excites wonder or other strong emotion; softness and sweetness give pleasure.
2848 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STRENGTH.23 (Noah Webster)
16. Soundness; force; the quality that convinces, persuades or commands assent; as the strength of an argument or of reasoning; the strength of evidence.
2849 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STRING.14 (Noah Webster)
8. A series of things connected or following in succession; any concatenation of things; as a string of arguments; a string of propositions.
2850 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STRONG.11 (Noah Webster)
8. Powerful; forcible; cogent; adapted to make a deep or effectual impression on the mind or imagination; as a strong argument; strong reasons; strong evidence; a strong example or instance. He used strong language.
2851 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUASORY.1 (Noah Webster)
SUASORY, a. [L.] Tending to persuade; having the quality of convincing and drawing by argument or reason.
2852 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUBDUE.9 (Noah Webster)
5. To overcome by persuasion or other mild means; as, to subdue opposition by argument or intreaties.
2853 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUBJOIN.1 (Noah Webster)
SUBJOIN, v.t. [L.] To add at the end; to add after something else has been said or written; as, to subjoin an argument or reason. [It is never used in a literal physical sense, to express the joining of material things.]
2854 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUBMIT.12 (Noah Webster)
1. To yield one’s opinion to the opinion or authority of another. On hearing the opinion of the court, the counsel submitted without further argument.
2855 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUBTERFUGE.1 (Noah Webster)
SUBTERFUGE, n. [L. subter and fugio, to flee.] Literally, that to which a person resorts for escape or concealment; hence, a shift; an evasion; an artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an argument, or to justify opinions or conduct.
2856 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUBTERFUGE.2 (Noah Webster)
Affect not little shifts and subterfuges, to avoid the force of an argument.
2857 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUBTIL.10 (Noah Webster)
7. Refined; fine; acute; as a subtil argument.
2858 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUBTILIZE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. To refine; to spin into niceties; as, to subtilize arguments.
2859 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUBTILIZE.4 (Noah Webster)
SUBTILIZE, v.i. To refine in argument; to make very nice distinctions.
2860 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUBTILNESS.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Fineness; acuteness; as the subtilness of an argument.