α. 1600s controuerser, 1600s–1900s controverser.
β. 1600s controuersor, 1600s 1800s controversor.
† controversern.
Obsolete.
= controverter n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > [noun] > person engaged in
disputer1434
wrangler1561
debater1594
controvertist1608
disputant1612
controverser1614
controverter1615
controversist1623
disputator1637
polemic1639
disceptator1656
controversialist1658
eristic1659
scaldabancoa1670
fencera1680
controversionalist?1780
digladiator1803
argufier1805
polemist1825
polemicist1864
polemician1871
picador1876
barrack-room lawyer1943
1614 T. Jackson Third Bk. Comm. Apostles Creede iii. 126 Although the ground of controuersers plea might bee from some spirituall law,..the Iudges censure was to extend onely vnto mens ciuill carriage.
1625 R. Montagu Appello Cæsarem 91 Sine Dei gratia..saith the controversor.
a1670 J. Hacket Cent. Serm. (1675) 153 This opinion their Cardinal Controverser disavows.
a1714 J. Sharp Serm. against Popery (1735) xv. 345 What now (says [sic] the Controversers of the Roman Church) can be more evidently plain?
1898 Calcutta Rev. 106 212 One quotation will serve to show how aptly he could cope with his controversors.
1903 Dental Rev. (Chicago) 17 1215 In societies he was not always at ease; he had a horror of controversers, and sometimes handled them rather pugnaciously.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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