disputative

And his disputative countenance changed to a pleasant expression.

Here again I brought my self into a premunire with the disputative Caledonian.

He passed through Scotland in a disputative vein, which could not have made him a popular traveller.

The disputative part, interesting in itself, does not here concern us.

We have seen in the Introduction how such questions were forced upon Aristotle by the disputative habits of his time.