KJV Dictionary Definition: disputable

disputable

DISPUTABLE, a. See Dispute. That may be disputed; liable to be called in question, controverted or contested; controvertible; of doubtful certainty. We speak of disputable opinions, statements, propositions, arguments, points, cases, questions, &c.

disputant

DISPUTANT, n. One who disputes; one who argues in opposition to another; a controvertist; a reasoner in opposition.

DISPUTANT, a. Disputing; engaged in controversy.

disputation

DISPUTATION, n. L.

1. 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.

2. An exercise in colleges, in which parties reason in opposition to each other, on some question proposed.

disputative

DISPUTATIVE, a. Disposed to dispute; inclined to cavil or to reason in opposition; as a disputative temper.

dispute

DISPUTE, v.i. L. Dispute is radically very similar to debate and discuss, both of which are from beating, driving, agitation.

1. To contend in argument; to reason or argue in opposition; to debate; to altercate; and to dispute violently is to wrangle. Paul disputed with the Jews int he synagogue. The disciples of Christ disputed among themselves who should be the greatest. Men often dispute about trifles.

2. To strive or contend in opposition in a competitor; as, we disputed for the prize.

DISPUTE, v.t.

1. To attempt to disprove by arguments or statements; to attempt to prove to be false, unfounded or erroneous; to controvert; to attempt to overthrow by reasoning. We dispute assertions, opinions, arguments or statements, when we endeavor to prove them false or unfounded. We dispute the validity of a title or claim. Hence to dispute a cause or case with another, is to endeavor to maintain ones own opinions or claims, and to overthrow those of his opponent.

2. To strive or contend for, either by words or actions; as, to dispute the honor of the day; to dispute a prize. But this phrase is elliptical, being used for dispute for, and primarily the verb is intransitive. See the Intransitive Verb, No. 2.

3. To call in question the propriety of; to oppose by reasoning. An officer is never to dispute the orders of his superior.

4. To strive to maintain; as, to dispute every inch of ground.

DISPUTE, n.

1. Strife or contest in words or by arguments; an attempt to prove and maintain ones own opinions or claims, by arguments or statements, in opposition to the opinions, arguments or claims of another; controversy in words. They had a dispute on the lawfulness of slavery, a subject which, one would think, could admit of no dispute.

Dispute is usually applied to verbal contest; controversy may be in words or writing.

Dispute is between individuals; debate and discussion are applicable to public bodies.

2. The possibility of being controverted; as in the phrase, this is a fact, beyond all dispute.

disputed

DISPUTED, pp. Contested; opposed by words or arguments; litigated.

disputer

DISPUTER, n. One who disputes, or who is given to disputes; a controvertist.

Where is the disputer of this world. 1 Corinthians 1.

disputing

DISPUTING, ppr. Contending by words or arguments; controverting.

DISPUTING, n. The act of contending by words or arguments; controversy; altercation.

Do all things without murmurings or disputings. Philippians 2.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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