disputative

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

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

And his disputative countenance changed to a pleasant expression.

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

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