Arguing

1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Argue

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Argue

1. v. t. To blame; to accuse; to charge with.
2. v. i. To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason.
3. v. i. To contend in argument; to dispute; to reason; — followed by with; as, you may argue with your friend without convincing him.
4. v. t. To debate or discuss; to treat by reasoning; as, the counsel argued the cause before a full court; the cause was well argued.
5. v. t. To prove or evince; too manifest or exhibit by inference, deduction, or reasoning.
6. v. t. To persuade by reasons; as, to argue a man into a different opinion.

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Arguer

1. n. One who argues; a reasoner; a disputant.

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Argufy

1. v. t. & i. To signify.
2. v. t. & i. To argue pertinaciously.

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Argulus

1. n. A genus of copepod Crustacea, parasitic of fishes; a fish louse. See Branchiura.

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Argument

1. v. i. To make an argument; to argue.
2. n. Proof; evidence.
3. n. A reason or reasons offered in proof, to induce belief, or convince the mind; reasoning expressed in words; as, an argument about, concerning, or regarding a proposition, for or in favor of it, or against it.
4. n. A process of reasoning, or a controversy made up of rational proofs; argumentation; discussion; disputation.
5. n. The subject matter of a discourse, writing, or artistic representation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem.
6. n. Matter for question; business in hand.
7. n. The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends; as, the altitude is the argument of the refraction.
8. n. The independent variable upon whose value that of a function depends.

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Argumentable

1. a. Admitting of argument.

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Argumental

1. a. Of, pertaining to, or containing, argument; argumentative.

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Argumentation

1. n. Debate; discussion.
2. n. The act of forming reasons, making inductions, drawing conclusions, and applying them to the case in discussion; the operation of inferring propositions, not known or admitted as true, from facts or principles known, admitted, or proved to be true.

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Argumentative

1. a. Given to argument; characterized by argument; disputatious; as, an argumentative writer.
2. a. Consisting of, or characterized by, argument; containing a process of reasoning; as, an argumentative discourse.
3. a. Adductive as proof; indicative; as, the adaptation of things to their uses is argumentative of infinite wisdom in the Creator.

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