单词 | altercate |
释义 | altercatev. 1. intransitive. To dispute vehemently or angrily; to argue. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > contend, dispute, argue [verb (intransitive)] flitec900 witherc1000 disputea1225 pleadc1275 strive1320 arguec1374 tolyc1440 toilc1450 wrestlec1450 altercate1530 disagree1534 dissent1538 contend1539 controvert1563 wrangle?1570 contestate?1572 to fend and prove?1578 contest1603 vie1604 controverse1605 discept1639 ergot1653 digladiatea1656 misprove1662 spar1698 argufy1804 spat1809 to cross swords1816 argle1823 to bandy words1828 polemize1828 controversialize1841 caffle1851 polemicize1881 ergotize1883 argy-bargy1887 cag1919 snack1956 society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > quarrel [verb (intransitive)] > in noisy or angry manner flitec900 chidec1000 strivec1290 scold1377 wrangle1377 jangle1382 brawlc1440 bickera1450 to have words1490 altercate1530 jar1550 brangle1553 brabble1568 yed1570 fraple?a1598 barrat1600 warble1600 camp1606 to word it1612 caterwaul1621 cample1628 pickeer1651 spar1698 fratch1714 rafflea1796 row1797 barney1850 dudgeon1859 frabble1885 scrap1895 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 421/1 I altercate, I moultiply langage or stryve in wordes. 1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies 87 I hope no..reasonable man, being not..disposed to altercate, or cauill without cause, will greatly doubt of the truth..of the former allegations. 1632 F. Quarles Divine Fancies i. xl Never fight Nor wrangle more, nor altercate agin. 1762 Derbyshire Gentleman's Answer 12 To wish undeviatingly the good of our country, and altercate about the means of serving it, imply no contradiction. 1778 B. Lincoln in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) II. 241 The hard necessity of altercating with the civil power. 1811 New Ann. Reg. 1810 Principal Occurr. 27/2 She came down stairs..to altercate with the Landlady about some three-pence or four-pence of a laundress's bill. 1837 E. Bulwer-Lytton Athens II. 208 It becomes us not..to altercate on the localities of the battle. 1920 F. E. Lumley Means of Social Control v. 120 They will grow insulting, they will quibble, altercate and jangle—if only they may have their way. 1955 Times 7 June 2/5 The French actress who altercates with her impresario in voluble Russian. 1993 E. C. Wragg Primary Teaching Skills iv. 65 London children were more likely to altercate or protest at the teacher's action. 2. transitive. To debate or dispute (a matter). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > hold discussions about, debate [verb (transitive)] dispute1340 discuss1402 reason?c1425 mootc1475 arguea1513 canvass1530 ventilate?1530 deliberate1536 devisea1538 expostulate1573 agitate1598 imparlc1600 exagitate1610 eventilate?1625 altercate1683 litigate1740 spar1744 1683 Tryal T. Pilkington 55 For the matter in fact that hath been altercated between them, the Question is, whether the Lord Mayor for the time being hath power in himself to call an Assembly and to dissolve it. 1764 J. Wilkinson Tutamen Nauticum Introd. p. xii A report is made at a subsequent general meeting, where it may be again altercated. 1819 D. Parker Proscription Delineated 59 This last part of the proposition was strenuously opposed, and..the first part was altercated. 1997 Sociol. Theory 15 209 To Lukác's theoretization of capitalism.., reification constitutes the central problem... To Habermas, we must first acknowledge the nature of reification with respect to communication before its grip on society can be altercated. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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