▪ I. disputing, vbl. n.
(dɪˈspjuːtɪŋ)
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. dispute in various senses; disputation; debate; controversy.
| a 1225 Leg. Kath. 561 Ah ȝet me þuncheð betere Þ{supt} ha beo ear ouercumen Wið desputinge. a 1250 Owl & Night. 875 Ȝif thu gest her-of to disputinge, Ich wepe bet thane thu singe. 1526–34 Tindale Acts xv. 2 Ther was rysen dissencion and disputinge. 1548 Hall Chron. Hen. VI (an. 28) 159 b, Sober in communicacion, wyse in disputyng. 1649 Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. Ep. Ded., Such is the nature of disputings, that they begin commonly in mistakes. 1881 Mrs. Hunt Childr. Jerus. 111 Hills and rocks stand now as then, regardless of the disputings of East and West. |
▪ II. diˈsputing, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That disputes; given to dispute, disputatious.
| 1645 Milton Tetrach. (1851) 159 Many disputing Theologians. 1691 Hartcliffe Virtues 333 The Philosophy of the Disputing Greeks. 1762 Goldsm. Cit. W. cxi. ¶7 The stake, the fagot, and the disputing doctor in some measure ennoble the opinions they are brought to oppose. |