Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is skilled in disputation; especially one who is versed in the discussions of the rabbis.
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Examples
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It was my feeling then that these persons of soaring imaginative design would come up with something that could help solve many of these much-vexed and pressing inherent problems, not only physical (its kind, design, placement, the place of other monuments and shrines on the same location) but spiritual, far superior than any nationalist, anti-nationalist, classicist, traditionalist, or even post-modernist or pilpulist could do.
Robert Eisenman: The Greatest "Heritage Site" of All Robert Eisenman 2010
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