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2861 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUM.15 (Noah Webster)
1. To bring or collect into a small compass; to comprise in a few words; to condense. He summed up his arguments at the close of his speech, with great force and effect.
2862 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUMMARY.1 (Noah Webster)
SUMMARY, a. [L. summa.] Reduced into a narrow compass, or into few words; short; brief; concise; compendious; as a summary statement of arguments or objections; a summary proceeding or process.
2863 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUPPORT.10 (Noah Webster)
7. To sustain; to carry on; as, to support a war or a contest; to support an argument or debate.
2864 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUPPOSE.2 (Noah Webster)
… of argument or illustration. Let us suppose the earth to be the center of the system, what would be the consequence?
2865 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUSPENSE.1 (Noah Webster)
… different arguments or considerations, or when it is uncertain respecting facts unknown, or events not in his own power.
2866 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUSPENSION.9 (Noah Webster)
8. In rhetoric, a keeping of the bearer in doubt and in attentive expectation of what is to follow, or what is to be the inference or conclusion from the arguments or observations.
2867 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SYLLOGISM.2 (Noah Webster)
… or argument, consisting of three propositions, of which the two first are called the premises, and the last the conclusion. In this argument, the conclusion …
2868 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SYLLOGISTIC.1 (Noah Webster)
SYLLOGISTIC, SYLLOGISTICAL, a. Pertaining to a syllogism; consisting of a syllogism, or of the form of reasoning by syllogisms; as syllogistic arguments or reasoning.
2869 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SYLLOGIZE.2 (Noah Webster)
Men have endeavored to teach boys to syllogize, or to frame arguments and refute them, without real knowledge.
2870 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TAKE.103 (Noah Webster)
3. To remove; to invalidate; as, to take off the force of an argument.
2871 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TEDIOUSNES.1 (Noah Webster)
TEDIOUSNES, n. Wearisomeness by length of continuance or by prolixity; as the tediousness of an oration or argument.
2872 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TELL.22 (Noah Webster)
… an argument or a lesson. It is much used in commands. Tell me the whole story; tell me all you know, or all that was said. Tell has frequently the sense of narrate …
2873 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TEMPT.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To incite or solicit to an evil act; to entice to something wrong by presenting arguments that are plausible or convincing, or by the offer of some pleasure or apparent advantage as the inducement.
2874 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TEMPTATION.1 (Noah Webster)
TEMPTATION, n. The act of tempting; enticement to evil by arguments, by flattery, or by the offer of some real or apparent good.
2875 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TENABLE.2 (Noah Webster)
That may be held, maintained or defended against an assailant, or against attempts to take it; as a tenable fortress. The works were not deemed tenable. The ground taken in the argument is not tenable.
2876 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TEST.19 (Noah Webster)
TEST, v.t. To compare with a standard; to try; to prove the truth or genuineness of any thing by experiment or by some fixed principle or standard; as, to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument.
2877 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TEXT.6 (Noah Webster)
3. Any particular passage of Scripture, used an authority in argument for proof of a doctrine. In modern sermons, texts of Scripture are not as frequently cited as they were formerly.
2878 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. THESIS.2 (Noah Webster)
1. A position or proposition which a person advances and offers to maintain, or which is actually maintained by argument; a theme; a subject.
2879 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. THIS.19 (Noah Webster)
Consider the arguments which the author had to write this, or to design the other, before you arraign him.
2880 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. THRESHHOLD.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Entrance; the place or point of entering or beginning. He is now at the threshhold of his argument.