Disputation Definition

dĭspyə-tāshən
disputations
noun
disputations
The act of disputing; dispute.
Webster's New World
Discussion marked by formal debate, often as an exercise.
Webster's New World

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.

Wiktionary

A rhetorical exercise in which parties reason in opposition to each other on some question proposed.

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Origin of Disputation

  • From Old French disputation, from Latin disputatio

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Disputation Sentence Examples

  • He remained a year in Rome, but the disputation he proposed was never held.

  • After a brief stay in the grammar school of Colmar he went to Strassburg in 1651, where he devoted himself to the study of philology, history and philosophy, and won his degree of master (1653) by a disputation against the philosophy of Hobbes.

  • In this public discussion the " disputation " of the middle ages survives in its least changed form.

  • He hid himself in the Dominican convent at Leipzig in fear of popular violence, and died there on the 4th of July 1519, just as Luther was beginning his famous disputation with Eck.

  • In Oxford he was allowed to hold a disputation with some learned doctors on the rival merits of the Copernican and so-called Aristotelian systems of the universe, and, according to his own report, had an easy victory.

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