Word Meanings - DEBATING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of discussing or arguing; discussion. Debating society or club, a society or club for the purpose of debate and improvement in extemporaneous speaking.

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• DEBATING
  The act of discussing or arguing; discussion. Debating society or club, a society or club for the purpose of debate and improvement in extemporaneous speaking.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• ARGUE
  1. To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason. I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will. Milton. 2. To contend in argument; to dispute; to reason; -- followed by with; as,
• DEBATEMENT
  Controversy; deliberation; debate. A serious question and debatement with myself. Milton.
• ARGUS
  A fabulous being of antiquity, said to have had a hundred eyes, who has placed by Juno to guard Io. His eyes were transplanted to the peacock's tail. 2. One very vigilant; a guardian always watchful.
• ARGUABLE
  Capable of being argued; admitting of debate.
• PURPOSE
  1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer.
• ARGUTELY
  In a subtle; shrewdly.
• SPEAKERSHIP
  The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives.
• DEBATER
  One who debates; one given to argument; a disputant; a controvertist. Debate where leisure serves with dull debaters. Shak.
• DISCUSSIONAL
  Pertaining to discussion.
• SOCIETY
  1. The relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company. "Her loved society." Milton. There is society where none intrudes By the deep sea, and music in its roar. Byron. 2. Connection; participation;
• SPEAKER
  1. One who speaks. Specifically: One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker. One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides
• ARGUMENTIZE
  To argue or discuss. Wood.
• ARGUMENTATIVE
  1. Consisting of, or characterized by, argument; containing a process of reasoning; as, an argumentative discourse. 2. Adductive as proof; indicative; as, the adaptation of things to their uses is argumentative of infinite wisdom in the Creator.
• ARGUMENTAL
  Of, pertaining to, or containing, argument; argumentative.
• ARGUMENTABLE
  Admitting of argument. Chalmers.
• PURPOSER
  1. One who brings forward or proposes anything; a proposer. 2. One who forms a purpose; one who intends.
• ARGULUS
  A genus of copepod Crustacea, parasitic of fishes; a fish louse. See Branchiura.
• ARGUS-EYED
  Extremely observant; watchful; sharp-sighted.
• REDARGUE
  To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict. How shall I . . . suffer that God should redargue me at doomsday, and the angels reproach my lukewarmness Jer. Taylor. Now this objection to the immediate cognition of external objects has,
• REARGUMENT
  An arguing over again, as of a motion made in court.
• BESPEAKER
  One who bespeaks.
• BENEFIT SOCIETY
  A society or association formed for mutual insurance, as among tradesmen or in labor unions, to provide for relief in sickness, old age, and for the expenses of burial. Usually called friendly society in Great Britain.
• OUTSPEAK
  1. To exceed in speaking. 2. To speak openly or boldly. T. Campbell. 3. To express more than. Shak.
• UNBESPEAK
  To unsay; hence, to annul or cancel. Pepys.
• UNARGUED
  1. Not argued or debated. 2. Not argued against; undisputed. Milton. 3. Not censured. B. Jonson.
• CROSS-PURPOSE
  A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas. Pepys. To be at cross-purposes, to misunderstand or to act counter to one another without intending it; -- said of persons. (more info)
• DISPURPOSE
  To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots. A. Brewer.
• TARGUMIST
  The writer of a Targum; one versed in the Targums.
• FORSPEAK
  1. To forbid; to prohibit. Shak. 2. To bewitch. Drayton.