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litigious, a.|lɪˈtɪdʒəs|
Also 6 litygyous, lytygious, letigeus, 7 la-, letigious, litigeous.
[ad. F. litigieux, ad. L. lītigiōsus, f. litigium litigation, related to lītigāre to litigate: see -ous.]
1. Of persons, their actions, dispositions, and utterances.
a. Fond of disputes, contentious. Now rare.
b. Fond of litigation; eager to go to law.
1382Wyclif 1 Tim. iii. 3 It bihoueth a byschop for to be..not litigious, or ful of stryf. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) III. 285 Socrates hade ii. litigious and malicious wifes. 1541R. Copland Galyen's Terap. 2 B iij b, The other are all togyther stupydes, sturdy, & lytygious. 1592[see barratous]. 1622Beaum. & Fl. Sp. Curate ii. ii, 'Tis some honest Client, Rich and litigious, the Curate has brought to me. 1639Fuller Holy War iii. xxviii. (1840) 168 A door was opened for her litigious pretenders to the Crown. 1665Glanvill Scepsis Sci. xix. 118 This Philosophy is litigious, the very spawn of disputations and controversies. 1682Burnet Rights Princes ii. 51 A litigious prosecution of their suits. 1732Berkeley Alciphr. vii. §13 If the moment of opinions had been by some litigious divines made the measure of their zeal. 1793Burke Observ. Conduct Minority Wks. VII. 234 Objections which I must ever think litigious and sophistical. 1803Wellington in Gurw. Desp. II. 338 Lieut. Proctor is of a very litigious disposition. 1841Elphinstone Hist. Ind. I. 373 They [Hindus] are very litigious... They will persevere in a law-suit till they are ruined. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiii. III. 299 Sir Patrick Hume..had returned from exile, as litigious..as he had been four years before. 1868E. Edwards Ralegh I. xxv. 601 Pine's grasping and litigious spirit had..given plenty of trouble in bygone days to Ralegh. 1875Browning Aristoph. Apol. Wks. (1896) I. 685/1 Play the litigious fool to stuff the mouth Of dikast with the due three-obol fee.
absol.1711Addison Spect. No. 21 ⁋ 3 This prodigious Society of Men may be divided into the Litigious and Peaceable.
†c. Engaged in litigation or contention; litigant. Obs.
1589Warner Alb. Eng. vi. xxxii. 143 He of Lancaster, and she of Yorke the heire: Of which letigious Famelies here mapped be the Lines.
absol.1665J. Webb Stone-Heng (1725) 155 Gateways..by which the litigious and others had Access.
†2. Open to dispute or question; disputable, questionable; productive of litigation or contention. Obs.
1520Whitinton Vulg. (1527) 10 And in especyal that ye haue ended the litygyous mater. c1555Harpsfield Divorce Hen. VIII (1878) 41 To determine..dubious, and litigious questions insurging upon Moses' law. 1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. iv. xi. §12 The feast of Easter being..litigious in the dayes of Constantine. 1598Sir T. Norreys in Lismore Papers Ser. ii. (1887) I. 17, I feare the matter will prove very letigeus. 1615Crooke Body of Man 336 The time of his birth seemeth to him to be litigious. 1648Bp. Hall Select Th. Ded., An age..that hath almost lost piety, in the chase of some litigious truths.
b. Disputable at law; that is or is liable to become the subject of a lawsuit, esp. of a benefice (see quot. 1768). In Civil and Scots Law said esp. of property respecting which an action is pending, and which therefore may not be alienated.
1568Mem. Q. Eliz. to Commissioners in H. Campbell Love Lett. Mary Q. Scots App. 15 The rest, that is litigious and doubtful, to be equally divided. 1611Beaum. & Fl. Triumph of Love ii, Thou hast put so sure a plea, That all my weal's litigious made by thee. 1624Sir H. Bourgchier in Ussher's Lett. (1686) 314 Dr. Dee's [library]..hath been long litigious, and by that means unsold. a1648Ld. Herbert Hen. VIII (1683) 417 The Earl of Desmond dying, leaves his Estate litigious betwixt his Brother and Grand-child. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 194 Nor Marks nor Bounds Distinguish'd Acres of litigious Grounds. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. 246 If two presentations be offered to the bishop upon the same avoidance, the church is then said to become litigious. 1868Act 31 & 32 Vict. c. 101 §159 No summons of reduction..shall have any effect in rendering litigious the lands..except [etc.]. 1880Muirhead Gaius Digest 493 If the thing was not known to be litigious when purchased.
3. Of or pertaining to lawsuits or litigation.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. ii. (Arb.) 153 Certaine Doctours of the ciuil law were heard in a litigious cause betwixt a man and his wife. 1612Dekker It be not good Wks. 1873 III. 268 The barres of our latigious Courts had wont To crack with thronging pleaders. 1644Milton Educ. Wks. (1847) 99/1 Pleasing thoughts of litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees. 1705T. Brown To Author of Address in Coll. Poems 95 Scaffolds are rais'd in Litigious Hall, The Maces glitter, and the Serjeants Bawl. 1710Steele & Addison Tatler No. 253 ⁋13 Your Knowledge in the litigious Parts of the Law. 1780Burke Sp. Œconomic Reform Wks. III. 261 The fury of litigious war blew her horn on the mountains. 1825Bentham Ration. Rew. 71 A defendant, unjustly dragged into the litigious contention. |