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Definition of Disputations
1. disputation [n] - See also: disputation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disputations
Literary usage of Disputations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Trevelyan Papers by John Payne Collier, Walter Calverley Trevelyan, Charles Edward Trevelyan (1872)
"... disputations ; the afternoone disputations in naturali and morali Philosophy;
and his Majesty made a gratulatory speech to the University, ..."
2. Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing by Richard Green Parker (1863)
"disputations are exercises in which parties reason in opposition to each other
on some question proposed. They are verbal contests respecting the truth of ..."
3. The Works of James Arminius, D. D., Formerly Professor of Divinity in the by Jacobus Arminius, James Nichols (1828)
"I. As WE are about again to commence our course of Theological disputations under
the auspices of our gracious God, we will previously treat a little on ..."
4. The English Grammar Schools to 1660: Their Curriculum and Practice by Foster Watson (1908)
"The Cross was the Market Cross, to which the boys went similarly to the Boys'
disputations at Smithfield in former ages. In the same year, 1656, ..."
5. A History of the Study of Mathematics at Cambridge by Walter William Rouse Ball (1889)
"This was chiefly due to the fact that henceforth the examiners used the disputations
only as a means of classifying the men roughly. ..."
6. Oxford University Statutes by University of Oxford, George Robert Michael Ward, James Heywood (1851)
"Of the Philosophical disputations at the Act 14. Of the Musical Act . . . 15.
Of the disputations in Medicine at the Act 16. Of the disputations in Law at ..."
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