disputant

• It was this quality which made him so superior a disputant; for as his mind had investigated the various sentiments and hypotheses of men, so had his almost intuitive discrimination stripped them of their deceptive appendages, and separated fallacies from truth, marshalling their arguments, so as to elucidate or detect each other. —  Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
• Encountered thus by so fearful and consummate a disputant, whose eyes flashed fire in unison with his oracular tones and empassioned language, the doctor's quiver unaccountably became exhausted, and his spirit subdued. —  Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
• Duerer was an excessively subtle disputant, and refuted his adversary's arguments, just as if he had come fully prepared for the discussion. —  Albert Durer
• Unlike some of his comrades of the Royal Society, he was of opinion that man does not live by science alone, and nothing came amiss to him Even in private the alarm of war is sometimes heard, and Mr Huxley is not a whit less formidable as a disputant across the table than with pen in hand. —  Thomas Henry Huxley
• His ability as a disputant was afterwards acknowledged by Eck, who in referring to this tourney, quoted Aristotle's remark that when two men dispute together, each of whom has learned the art, there is sure to be a good disputation. —  Life of Luther

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

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