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Definition of Polemize
1. Verb. Engage in a controversy. "The two historians polemicized for years"
Generic synonyms: Altercate, Argufy, Dispute, Quarrel, Scrap
Derivative terms: Polemic, Polemic, Polemic
Definition of Polemize
1. to engage in polemics [v -MIZED, -MIZING, -MIZES] - See also: polemics
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polemize
Literary usage of Polemize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Holy Roman Empire by James Bryce Bryce (1880)
"... polemize.' This has commonly been taken for conclusive evidence that the plan
had been settled beforehand, and such it would be were there not some ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"These all intend to preach the " old Gospel " in the sense of the doctrine of
the Church; they are opposed to the modern tendency and polemize against the ..."
3. Is Conscience an Emotion?: Three Lectures on Recent Ethical Theories by Hastings Rashdall (1914)
"It is in reference to these two fundamental axioms — the axiom of equity 1 This
has been maintained by some of those who polemize against the idea of a ..."
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