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controvertist|ˈkɒntrəvɜːtɪst, -ˈvɜːtɪst| Also 8 contra-. [f. controvert + -ist.] One who practises or is engaged in controversy; a controversialist.
1655S. W. Schism Disarmd 212 He was borne a Controvertist. 1667Decay Chr. Piety x. §1. 312 Our controvertists fall from arguments to reproaches. 1759Johnson Rasselas xxii, Their disputations..often continued till neither controvertist remembered upon what question they began. 1852J. H. Newman Scope Univ. Educ. 262 To crush and pound to dust the audacious controvertist. 1884Jrnl. Educ. 1 Sept. 341 One hint which might advantageously be acted upon by all controvertists. |