Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of disputing; debate.
- n. An academic exercise consisting of a formal debate or an oral defense of a thesis.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of disputing or debating; argumentation; controversy; verbal contest respecting the truth of some fact, opinion, or proposition.
- n. An exercise in which parties debate and argue on some question proposed, as in a school or college. The medieval logics, under the head of obligations, give minute rules for these exercises. The first party, the respondent, undertakes to defend a given thesis. The second party, the opponent, begins by giving a number of arguments against the thesis. If there are several opponents, they all offer arguments. The respondent then gives positive reasons in syllogistic form, after which he responds briefly to all the arguments of the opponents in order. The latter may or may not be allowed to reply. Finally, the moderator sums up and renders his decision. Doctrinal disputation concerns a matter of certain knowledge, dialectical disputation a matter of opinion. Tentative disputation is intended to try the knowledge of the parties, or of one of them. Sophistical disputation is intended to deceive.
- n. Augustine disputation. See Augustine.
Wiktionary
- n. 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.
- n. A rhetorical exercise in which parties reason in opposition to each other on some question proposed.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. 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.
- n. A rhetorical exercise in which parties reason in opposition to each other on some question proposed.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement
- n. the formal presentation of a stated proposition and the opposition to it (usually followed by a vote)
Etymologies
- From Latin disputatio (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Hitchens loved what he called "disputation" – there was little difference between his public and private speaking styles – and America, a more oral culture than Britain's, offered ample opportunity.”
“The subject of the disputation is not piety, but the motives to piety; that of the description is not God, but the works of God.”
“Note 145: "After he had heard the Ethics many times, comprehending them so thoroughly that his teachers found him hard to cope with in disputation, he studied the Politics assiduously.”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“Federico reveled in disputation, aiming to learn "some new thing each day.”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“STRANGER: And there is a private sort of controversy, which is cut up into questions and answers, and this is commonly called disputation?”
“This brought him into peril of his life, with which he narrowly escaped: The Grecians, when they found they could not deal with him in disputation, contrived to silence him another way; they went about to slay him, as they did Stephen when they could not resist the Spirit by which he spoke, ch. vi.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
“When men are once advanced into that field of disputation, which is all overgrown with thorns of subtleties, perplexed notions, and futilous terms of art, they consider principally how they may entangle others in it, scarce at all how they may get out of it themselves.”
“The disputation was a preparation for the disputations which formed part of what we should now term the degree examinations.”
“Divinity; & so spent all the time at Meat in Latin disputation.”
The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1
“Questiones disputatae were special treatises on the more difficult or the more important topics, and as the name implied, followed the method of debate prevalent in the schools, generally called disputation or determination.”
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