† diˈsputisoun Obs.
Forms: 3 desputisun, 4 -isoun, -eson, despitusoun, -esoun, disputiso(u)n, -isun, -eso(u)n, -pitesoun, -peticioun, 5 -petison.
[a. OF. desputeisun, -on, -aisun, -esun, -ison, -isson, disp-, early ad. L. disputātiōn-em, with prefix and suffix conformed to their popular types: see -ation, and cf. oreisun, orison. The regular ME. type, but superseded in 15th c. by the latinized disputation, q.v.]
= disputation.
| c 1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 279/56 A day þare was i-nome Of desputisun bi tweone heom. a 1300 Cursor M. 13925 (Cott.) And herd o þair disputisun. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 300 Þe clergie of þe south mad a disputesoun, & openly with mouth assigned gode resoun. 1382 Wyclif Eccl. iii. 11 To the disputisoun of them. ― Rom. xiv. 1 Take ȝe a syk man in bileue, not in deceptaciouns [gloss, or dispeticiouns] of thouȝtis. c 1386 Chaucer Merch. T. 230 As al day falleth altercacioun Bitwixen freendes in disputisoun [MS. Harl. dispiteson, 4 MSS. disputacion]. c 1450 Lonelich Grail xlv. 730 Tyl it happed vppon a day That theke dispetison ȝe comen & say. |