Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PO-LEM'IC, or PO-LEM'IC-AL
PO-LEM'IC, or PO-LEM'IC-AL, a. [Gr. πολεμικος, from πολεμος, war.]
- Controversial; disputative; intended to maintain an opinion or system in opposition to others; as, a polemic treatise, discourse, essay or book; polemic divinity.
- Engaged in supporting an opinion or system by controversy; as, a polemic writer. South.
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