disputative

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The U. S., under the impression that there was still time and room to make up its mind, was arguing along as it always had: in straggling, disputative, disorderly democracy.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel translated and annotated by Emilie Michaelis ... and H. Keatley Moore. by Michaelis, Emilie

The conversation ere long recommenced in a more general form, though still in a somewhat disputative tone.

From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte

And about a century before Aristotle reached manhood, they had invented this peculiarly difficult and trying species of disputative pastime, in which we find the genesis of Aristotle's logical treatises.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

The disputative, dialectical tone which assists in the work was the ordinary mode of instruction in the mediæval universities, and finds a parallel in the method of thought observable in other ages.

From History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion by Farrar, Adam Storey