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altercation|æltəˈkeɪʃən, ˌɔːl-|
Forms: 4–5 altercacioun, 4–6 -cion, -cyon, 5 -tyown, altircacioune, 6 altri-, altrycacion, alterication, 6– altercation.
[a. Fr. altercation, ad. L. altercātiōn-em, n. of action f. altercā-ri; see prec.]
1. The action of disputing in warmth or anger; wordy strife, wrangling.
c1386Chaucer Merch. T. 229 As alday fallith altercacioun [v.r. altercacion(e] Bitwixe frendes in dispitesoun. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. ccliii. 327 Therof arose a grete altercacyon among wryters of this mater pro and contra. 1509Barclay Ship of Fooles (1570) 2 Not to fall in alterication. 1541Paynell Catiline liv. 77 Cesar & Cato, being at altercation togyther touching the peyn & punishment of the conspirators. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 241 A Judicious Reader..looks for Arguments, and loathes altercation. 1773Franklin Lett. Wks. 1840 VI. 379, I have an extreme aversion to public altercation on philosophic points. 1856E. A. Bond Russia in 16th C. Introd. 21 This monopoly..was a pregnant cause of altercation between the two courts.
b. The conduct of a case in a court of justice by means of question and answer. (L. altercātio Quint.)
1779Johnson K. of Prussia Wks. 1787 IV. 553 In the discussion of causes, altercation must be allowed; yet to altercation some limits must be put. There are therefore allowed a bill, an answer, a reply, and a rejoinder. 1875Poste Gaius iv. (ed. 2) 497 An oral pleading or altercation.
2. A vehement or angry dispute, a noisy controversy, a wrangle.
1552Huloet, Altricacion, Rixa. 1582N.T. (Rheims) Jude 9 When Michael..made altercation for the body of Moyses. 1665Glanville Sceps. Sci. 74 Which excites men to endless bawlings and altercations. 1753Richardson Grandison (1781) II. xxv. 241 An altercation cannot end in your favour. 1840Macaulay Clive 42 Stormy altercations at the India House and in Parliament. 1856Miss Muloch J. Halifax 293 Which produced a warm altercation among the children. |