Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DIS-PU-TA'TION
DIS-PU-TA'TION, n. [L. disputatio.]
- 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.
- An exercise in colleges, in which parties reason in opposition to each other, on some question proposed.
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