Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DIS-PU-TA'TIOUS
DIS-PU-TA'TIOUS, a.
Inclined to dispute; apt to cavil or controvert; as, a disputatious person or temper. The Christian doctrine of a future life was no recommendation of the new religion to the wits and philosophers of that disputatious period. – Buckminster.
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