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▪ I. † ˈcontroverse, n. Obs.
Also 6 contrauerce.
[a. F. controverse, ad. L. contrōversia controversy.]
= controversy.
15..Feylde (W. de W.) title, The Contrauerce bytwene a Louer and a Jaye. 1596Spenser F.Q. iv. v. 2 Now here commeth next in place..The controverse of beauties soveraine grace. a1631Donne Progr. Soul (R.), We see in authors, too stiff to recant An hundred controverses of an ant. 1636G. Sandys Paraphr. Job 15 (T.) He..with his sword the controverse decides. Ibid. 106 (T.) The controverse of life and death Is arbitrated by his breath.
▪ II. † ˈcontroverse, v. Obs.
[The ppl. adj. controversed = F. controversé, L. contrōversus, came at length to be treated as a true pple., implying a verb to controverse, which actually occurs in Florio as a rendering of It. controversare. In Fr., controversé goes back to 16th c., but the verb controverser is given only as a useful neologism by Littré. Latin had a deponent contrōversārī to enter into controversy, dispute: cf. sense 2.]
1. trans. To make (a matter) the subject of controversy; to discuss, debate.
1602Carew Cornwall 26 b, The causes [are] so controversed amongst the learned. 1611Florio, Controuersáre, to controuerse. 1616T. Godwin Moses & A. (1655) 33 It is much controversed, whether the Assideans were Pharisees or Essenes. 1755B. Martin Mag. Arts & Sc. ii. i. 9 The most learned Philosophers have been controversing this Point for above 2000 Years.
b. to controverse in question: to call in question, challenge, dispute, controvert.
1601–2W. Fulbecke 2nd Pt. Parall. 12 If this title bee controuersed in question, whether shall the ecclesiasticall court or temporall hold iurisdiction.
2. intr. To enter into controversy, dispute with.
1699F. Bugg Quakerism Exp. 60 There never was any Heresie had the Impudence..to wrong all People they controvers'd with. |