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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DISPUTATION, n. [L.]
1. The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal contest, respecting the truth of some fact, opinion, proposition or argument.
2. An exercise in colleges, in which parties reason in opposition to each other, on some question proposed.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the formal presentation of a stated proposition and the opposition to it (usually followed by a vote) [syn: debate, disputation, public debate]
2: a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement; "they were involved in a violent argument" [syn: controversy, contention, contestation, disputation, disceptation, tilt, argument, arguing]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 14th century 1. the action of disputing ; verbal controversy <continuous disputation between them> <ideological disputations> 2. an academic exercise in oral defense of a thesis by formal logic

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a disputing, debating. b an argument; a controversy. 2 a formal debate. Etymology: ME f. F disputation or L disputatio (as DISPUTE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Disputation Dis`pu*ta"tion, n. [OE. desputeson, disputacion, OF. desputeison, F. disputation, fr. L. disputatio. See Dispute, v. i.] 1. The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal contest respecting the truth of some fact, opinion, proposition, or argument. 2. A rhetorical exercise in which parties reason in opposition to each other on some question proposed.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(disputations) Disputation is discussion on a subject which people cannot agree about. (FORMAL) After much legal disputation our right to resign was established. = debate N-VAR

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

dis-pu-ta'-shun: In Ac 15:2, the Revised Version (British and American) reads "questioning" for the King James Version "disputation" (Greek suzetesis). In Ro 14:1, the King James Version "doubtful disputations" becomes in the Revised Version (British and American) "decision of scruples" (Greek diakriseis dialogismon, literally, "discussions of doubts"). The Greek in neither case implies what the word "dispute" has come to mean in modern English, but rather "to discuss" or "argue."

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Debate, dispute, controversy, argumentation, verbal contest.