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Dispute :: Dispute (v. t.) To make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss.

Disputation :: Disputation (v. i.) The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal contest respecting the truth of some fact, opinion, proposition, or argument..

Jangling :: Jangling (n.) Idle babbling; vain disputation.

Disceptation :: Disceptation (n.) Controversy; disputation; discussion.

Schoolman :: Schoolman (n.) One versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity.

Polemic :: Polemic (a.) Engaged in, or addicted to, polemics, or to controversy; disputations; as, a polemic writer..

Response :: Response (n.) Reply to an objection in formal disputation.

School :: School (n.) One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning..

Disputation :: Disputation (v. i.) A rhetorical exercise in which parties reason in opposition to each other on some question proposed.

Argutation :: Argutation (n.) Caviling; subtle disputation.

Discuss :: Discuss (v. t.) To examine in detail or by disputation; to reason upon by presenting favorable and adverse considerations; to debate; to sift; to investigate; to ventilate.

Polemics :: Polemics (n.) The art or practice of disputation or controversy, especially on religious subjects; that branch of theological science which pertains to the history or conduct of ecclesiastical controversy..

Opponent :: Opponent (n.) One who opposes in a disputation, argument, or other verbal controversy; specifically, one who attacks some theirs or proposition, in distinction from the respondent, or defendant, who maintains it..

Discussion :: Discussion (n.) The act of discussing or exchanging reasons; examination by argument; debate; disputation; agitation.

Opponency :: Opponency (n.) The act of opening an academical disputation; the proposition of objections to a tenet, as an exercise for a degree..

Aulic :: Aulic (n.) The ceremony observed in conferring the degree of doctor of divinity in some European universities. It begins by a harangue of the chancellor addressed to the young doctor, who then receives the cap, and presides at the disputation (also called the aulic)..

Argument :: Argument (n.) A process of reasoning, or a controversy made up of rational proofs; argumentation; discussion; disputation..

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