单词 | controverter |
释义 | controvertern. Now somewhat rare. A person engaged in argument or debate; an opponent of a person or position; a disputant. 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 1615 E. P. in J. Ainsworth Trying out of Truth To Rdr. 2 The controverters are so different in iudgment. a1637 B. Jonson Timber 1046 in Wks. (1640) III Some Controverters in Divinity are like Swaggerers in a Taverne, that..turne every thing into a weapon. 1676 A. Marvell Mr. Smirke 27 The Controverter himself hath..by his own Argument all along hitherto proved it. 1739 Ess. & Lett. Var. Subj. 180 Whether the Controverters of them were most Knaves or Fools. 1789 R. Cumberland Arundel II. lxxv. 125 These [answers] again are as unintelligible to the pacific controverter of his opinions. 1826 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 575 Dr. Parr..the skilful controverter. 1840 London Med. Gaz. 4 Dec. 410/2 Raspail, the staunch controvertor of certainty in legal medicine, is ready to obtain as much arsenic from any old bit of furniture! 1887 Hampshire Advertiser 19 Nov. 8/3 Upon a division the opener was supported by 55 votes against 51 recorded for the controverter. 1917 Munsey's Mag. June 109/2 The Sun fenced lightly and skilfully with all controverters. 1988 Eng. Hist. Rev. 103 460 Edward Mortimer stands in creditably for Professor Bull in the latter's special, self-appointed role as controverter of the ‘Beloff thesis’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1615 |
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