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litigate, v.|ˈlɪtɪgeɪt|
[f. L. lītigāt-, ppl. stem of lītigāre, f. līt-, līs lawsuit.]
1. intr. To be a party to, or carry on, a suit at law; to go to law. Also † gen. to dispute.
1615Daniel Queen's Arcadia Poems (1717) 181 Then might they be taught..To litigate perpetually. 1675Baxter Cath. Theol. i. i. 27 If any will litigate de nomine entis, let them call it Being or No-being as they please. 1726Ayliffe Parergon 83 The Appellant after the Interposition of an Appeal still litigates in the same Cause before the Judge a Quo. 1834Tait's Mag. I. 697/1 Making the determination of two Justices of Peace final, if the Quaker did not litigate farther. 1881Daily News 29 Dec. 5/3 It was a characteristic of Lord Justice Lush as a Judge to prevent suitors if he could from litigating to the uttermost.
2. trans. To make the subject of a lawsuit; to contest at law; to plead for or against.
1741T. Robinson Gavelkind ii. v. 234 A question formerly much litigated. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) I. xiii. 87 If I do not oblige them, my grandfather's estate is to be litigated with me. 1774Connect. Col. Rec. (1887) XIV. 381 A rate of one penny farthing on the pound, to pay their costs in sundry matters litigated before the Assembly. 1791Cowper Iliad xii. 515 Litigating warm Their right in some small portion of the soil. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) VI. 350 The precise question ought not to be again litigated. 1864Burton Scot Abr. II. i. 117 The property in ‘Anderson's Pills’ was litigated in the Court of Session.
b. gen. To dispute, contest (a point, etc.).
1739Cibber Apol. (1756) II. 26 He never cared to litigate anything that did not affect his figure upon the stage. 1758H. Walpole Catal. Roy. Authors. (1759) II. 230 The point indeed has been much litigated, but is of little consequence. 1842G. S. Faber Prov. Lett. (1844) I. 91 He..deems it indecorous to litigate the question with his diocesan.
Hence ˈlitigating vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) II. 10 Compelling my litigating opponents to an accomodation. 1780Newgate Cal. V. 25 A family estate, the right of which was litigating in the court of chancery. 1884T. H. Gore in Law Times 8 Nov. 29/1 The retailer was the person litigating. |