altercate
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As far as I can make out that means me and the rest of the battery altercate every other night.
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The essence of the law is altercation; for the law can altercate, fulminate, deprecate, irritate, and go on at any rate.
From A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812 by Thurston, Katherine Cecil
Unable to endure the interminable altercating of his racial brothers, he had left at midnight for Geneva.
From Time Magazine Archive
Alas, Church writers, altercating tribes— The vessel and your Church may sink in storms.
From The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
Quite five minutes passed before Priam perceived, between the altercating doctrines, the high scaffold-clad summit of a building which was unfamiliar to him.
From Buried Alive: a Tale of These Days by Bennett, Arnold
After a long altercating conversation, Mr. Yorke, unhappily then Lord Chancellor, departed, and I went to dinner.
From Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir by Ledbury, Lady Biddulph of
My sister Jessie had come aboard while Carver and the captain were altercating.
From The Pilots of Pomona by Leighton, Robert
