controvertible

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All this is doubtless controvertible, and what has been written may serve only to amuse or to disgust those who are better versed in the facts of our history and keener analysts of its laws.

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  1. Capable of being disputed; disputable; not too evident to exclude difference of opinion: as, a controvertible point of law. We flnd the matter controvertible, and with much more reason denied then is as yet affirmed. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., ii. 1.

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  • Una primera interpretación se me antoja, si no superficial, al menos sí controvertible: el maestro nos sugiere con estas palabras que toda la diversidad lingüística humana que ha existido y está por existir proviene de una misma lengua (¿ecos en “flash back” de la hipótesis monogenética?).
  • And admitting that the last point is controvertible, there remains this unanswerable question: is a woman possessed because she is hysterical, or is she hysterical because she is possessed? —  Là-bas
  • Almost every new-acquired territory is, in some degree, controvertible, and till the controversy is decided, a term very difficult to be fixed, all that can be had is real possession and actual dominion This, surely, is a sufficient answer to the feudal gabble of a man, who is every day lessening that splendour of character which once illuminated the kingdom, then dazzled, and afterwards inflamed it; and for whom it will be happy if the nation shall, at last, dismiss him to nameless obscurity, with that equipoise of blame and praise which Corneille allows to Richelieu, a man who, I think, had much of his merit, and many of his faults Chacun parle ŕ son gré de ce grand cardinal Mais, pour moi, je n'en dirai rien Il m'a fait trop de bien pour en dire du mal Il m'a fait trop de mal pour en dire du bien To push advantages too far is neither generous nor just. —  The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons
  • All this is doubtless controvertible, and what has been written may serve only to amuse or to disgust those who are better versed in the facts of our history and keener analysts of its laws. —  The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915
  • The work, whatever proofs of diligence and attention it may exhibit, is yet capable of many improvements; the orthography which I recommend is still controvertible, the etymology which I adopt is uncertain, and perhaps frequently erroneous; the explanations are sometimes too much contracted, and sometimes too much diffused, the significations are distinguished rather with subtlety than skill, and the attention is harassed with unnecessary minuteness. —  Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations
 

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  1. = Spanish controvertible = Italian controvertibile; as controvert + -ible.
 

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