Word Meanings - DEBATEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Controversy; deliberation; debate. A serious question and debatement with myself. Milton.

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• SERIOUS
  1. Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile. He is always serious, yet there is about his manner a graceful ease. Macaulay. 2. Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting
• QUESTIONIST
  A candidate for honors or degrees who is near the time of his examination. (more info) 1. A questioner; an inquirer.
• DEBATEMENT
  Controversy; deliberation; debate. A serious question and debatement with myself. Milton.
• QUESTIONABLENESS
  The quality or state of being questionable, doubtful, or suspicious.
• DEBATER
  One who debates; one given to argument; a disputant; a controvertist. Debate where leisure serves with dull debaters. Shak.
• QUESTION
  1. The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer. 2. Discussion; debate; hence, objection; dispute; doubt; as, the story is true beyond question; he obeyed without question. There arose a question between some
• MYSELF
  I or me in person; -- used for emphasis, my own self or person; as I myself will do it; I have done it myself; -- used also instead of me, as the object of the first person of a reflexive verb, without emphasis; as, I will defend myself.
• QUESTIONNAIRE
  = Questionary, above.
• QUESTIONLESS
  Unquestioning; incurious.
• DELIBERATION
  1. The act of deliberating, or of weighing and examining the reasons for and against a choice or measure; careful consideration; mature reflection. Choosing the fairest way with a calm deliberation. W. Montagu. 2. Careful discussion and examination
• QUESTIONABLY
  In a questionable manner.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• QUESTIONER
  One who asks questions; an inquirer. "Little time for idle questioners." Tennyson.
• QUESTIONABILITY
  The state or condition of being questionable. Stallo.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• DEBATE
  1. To engage in combat for; to strive for. Volunteers . . . thronged to serve under his banner, and the cause of religion was debated with the same ardor in Spain as on the plains of Palestine. Prescott. 2. To contend for in words or arguments;
• QUESTIONARY
  Inquiring; asking questions; testing. "Questionary epistles." Pope.
• DEBATEFULLY
  With contention.
• QUESTIONABLE
  1. Admitting of being questioned; inviting, or seeming to invite, inquiry. Thou com'st in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee. Shak. 2. Liable to question; subject to be doubted or called in question; problematical; doubtful;
• DEBATEFUL
  Full of contention; contentious; quarrelsome. Spenser.
• UNQUESTIONABLE
  1. Not questionable; as, an unquestionable title. 2. Not inviting questions or conversation. Shak. -- Un*ques"tion*a*bly, adv.
• BERING SEA CONTROVERSY
  A controversy between Great Britain and the United States as to the right of Canadians not licensed by the United States to carry on seal fishing in the Bering Sea, over which the United States claimed jurisdiction as a mare clausum. A court of
• UNQUESTIONED
  1. Not called in question; not doubted. 2. Not interrogated; having no questions asked; not examined or examined into. Shak. She muttering prayers, as holy rites she meant, Through the divided crowd unquestioned went. Dryden. 3. Indisputable; not
• CROSS-QUESTION
  To cross-examine; to subject to close questioning.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.