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disputative, a.|dɪˈspjuːtətɪv|
[a. late L. disputātīv-us (Cassiodorus), f. disputāt-, ppl. stem of disputāre to dispute: see -ative.]
1. Characterized by or given to disputation; disputatious.
1579G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 72 The disputative appetite of Doctor Busbye. 1630B. Jonson New Inn ii. ii, Thou hast a doctor's look, A face disputative, of Salamanca. 1787F. Burney Diary 6 Mar., I told him I was in no disputative humour. 1788Trifler No. 23. 303 The cavils of the disputative. 1890S. J. Duncan Soc. Departure 57 The critic..most disputative of its positions.
†2. That is the subject of disputation or dispute; controversial; controverted. Obs.
1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 31 The Phylosopher..teacheth a disputatiue vertue. 1589Nashe Pref. to Greene's Menaphon (Arb.) 14, I had rather referre it, as a disputatiue plea to Diuines. 1708Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) VI. 270 [He] reported the method of ballotting in disputative elections.
3. Of or pertaining to disputation.
1664H. More Myst. Iniq. Apol. 547 Which Knowledge of the Lord..is not certainly any Disputative Subtilty or curious Decision. 1873Burton Hist. Scot. VI. lxxii. 278 The oddest of all their disputative exhibitions.
Hence diˈsputatively adv., in a disputative or contentious manner, disputatiously; diˈsputativeness, the quality of being disputatious.
1588J. Harvey Disc. Probl. 7, I..onely assay problematically, and as our schoolemen tearme it, disputatiuely, what may therin appeere most probable. 1836G. S. Faber Prim. Doctr. Election (1842) 224 Disputativeness. 1842― Provinc. Lett. (1844) II. 203 In such a case of dogged disputativeness. 1860Reade Cloister & H. II. 316 ‘There, now’, said Catherine, disputatively. |