Definition of controversy

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Controversy (n.) A suit in law or equity; a question of right.

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Judge :: "Judge (v. t.) To hear and determine by authority, as a case before a court, or a controversy between two parties..
Determine :: Determine (v. t.) To bring to a conclusion, as a question or controversy; to settle authoritative or judicial sentence; to decide; as, the court has determined the cause..
Controversy :: Controversy (n.) Contention; dispute; debate; discussion; agitation of contrary opinions.
Arbitrator :: Arbitrator (n.) A person, or one of two or more persons, chosen by parties who have a controversy, to determine their differences. See Arbitration..
Contest :: Contest (n.) Earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation.
Debatement :: Debatement (n.) Controversy; deliberation; debate.
Syncretistic :: Syncretist (n.) an adherent of George Calixtus and other Germans of the seventeenth century, who sought to unite or reconcile the Protestant sects with each other and with the Roman Catholics, and thus occasioned a long and violent controversy in the Lutheran church..
Variance :: Variance (n.) Difference that produce dispute or controversy; disagreement; dissension; discord; dispute; quarrel.
Faser :: Faser (n.) A blow in the face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy..
Gladiator :: Gladiator (n.) One who engages in any fierce combat or controversy.
Polemic :: Polemic (a.) Engaged in, or addicted to, polemics, or to controversy; disputations; as, a polemic writer..
Position :: Position (n.) Hence: The ground which any one takes in an argument or controversy; the point of view from which any one proceeds to a discussion; also, a principle laid down as the basis of reasoning; a proposition; a thesis; as, to define one's position; to appear in a false position..
Agitation :: Agitation (n.) Examination or consideration of a subject in controversy, or of a plan proposed for adoption; earnest discussion; debate..
Chest :: Chest (n.) Strife; contention; controversy.
Contentious :: Contentious (a.) Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy.
Philopolemical :: Philopolemical (a.) Fond of polemics or controversy.
Disagreement :: Disagreement (n.) A falling out, or controversy; difference..
Umpire :: Umpire (n.) A person to whose sole decision a controversy or question between parties is referred; especially, one chosen to see that the rules of a game, as cricket, baseball, or the like, are strictly observed..
Fruitless :: Fruitless (a.) Productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle; useless; unprofitable; as, a fruitless attempt; a fruitless controversy..
Agitate :: Agitate (v. t.) To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated..
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