disputations

Go into a family where the parents are rude, ill-bred and indulge in disputations and unkind remarks, and you will find the children are rough, uncouth and bearish.

A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on Politeness and Good Breeding Sophia Orne 1873

When shall men leave their uncharitable disputations, which is to take place, faith or repentance, and which, when we consider faith and works?

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel John Donne 1601

They succeeded in getting their own report of the disputations, which is still extant, and they would have printed it, if they had been able.

Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities Edmund Campion 1560

St. Paul's, of scholastic "disputations" between the two, put an end to by Dean Colet because they led to brawling among the boys, when the Paulines would call those of St. Anthony "pigs" and the pigs would call the Paulines "pigeons" -- from the pigeons of St. Paul's

Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932

The nature of these "disputations" may be easily conjectured, The opinions of these philosophers are even now familiarly known: they are, in one form or another, current in the literature of modern times.

Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles 1852

"disputations" added, it might be regarded as typical of the Arts course in the medieval universities generally.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

I would suggest that our discussions and disputations with conservatives are primarily for display.

Archive 2009-10-01 2009

In between employment at will and the law is a whole mess of claims, counterclaims, lawsuits, disputations and confusion.

Coyote Blog » Labor Law 2009

This great medieval building, begun in 1423, was built for theology lectures and disputations.

Cardinal Pell in Oxford 2009

It so happened that when it truly mattered, the president who called the shots on Iraq had his gaze fixated on the past and its disputations.

What Obama Left Behind in Iraq Fouad Ajami 2011