Word Finder - debated

definition

To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena.

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"Debate me, coward!" snarled the completely normal intellectual.

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To fight.

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To engage in combat for; to strive for.

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To consider (to oneself), to think over, to attempt to decide

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He was debating where he'd spend his holiday.

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Disputed, under discussion, not settled.

Wynn debated the meaning behind the words.

The very fact that we have debated in recent years whether we can use torture to get information that will save lives is a sign of the effects of civilization.

He debated what to tell Tamer.

She debated what to do about the conversation she overheard.

He debated following Jonny then changed his mind.

Catholic apologetics must further give a central position to Church authority, which Roman Catholics explicitly define as infallible; but this position too is debated in a late section of their system.

How far he was responsible for the persecutions which afterwards arose is a debated question.

She was barely on her feet and debated whether or not she'd get up to turn off the light or fall asleep right there.

She debated returning to her quarters until she could find a more private moment to approach him.

Darian debated how to find Jenn before he risked talking to her mentally.

The part he played during the summer of 1789 is one of the most debated points in the history of the Revolution.

On that date the delegates reassembled in Sydney, and debated the bill in the light of the suggestions made by the legislatures of the federating colonies.

The question whether this surplus was real or only apparent has been much debated, but t,here is no reason to doubt its substantial reality.

It is necessary here to advert to a subject much debated during recent years, viz.

She debated with herself about his intentions.

Kiera debated how he could have worse news, curious about the man and the war.

Grim, she quickened her step as she debated how to manipulate her killer before the final blow fell.

The derivation of the word has been much debated.

Watt's exhaustive work on Wild and Cultivated Cotton Plants of the World (1907) is the latest authority on the subject; and his views on some debated points have been incorporated in the following account.

Pausing at her normal bus stop, Deidre debated walking instead of taking the bus.

Its date has been much debated.

After discussions lasting for two years it was debated in parliament, finished on the 22nd of March 1648, and was adopted by the Scottish parliament in the following year.

But it was obvious that a permanent coalition could not be expected unless some definite understanding on the debated point could be attained; and on the very same day the landgrave despatched to Zwingli an invitation to a colloquy, and received his prompt acquiescence.

It has been debated how far Browne derived this idea from Dutch Anabaptists in Norwich and elsewhere.

But, at the last moment, the dread of another Muscovite invasion made them more pliable and, at a Polish diet held at Warsaw from November 1563 to June 1564, which the Lithuanians attended, the question of an absolute union was hotly debated.

The island was variously identified with America, Scandinavia, the Canaries and even Palestine; ethnologists saw in its inhabitants the ancestors of the Guanchos, the Basques or the ancient Italians; and even in the 17th and 18th centuries the credibility of the whole legend was seriously debated, and sometimes admitted, even by Montaigne, Buffon and Voltaire.

It has been much debated, in both cases, which of the three texts preserves the original figures.

For the much debated question as to the conditions under which atolls and reefs are formed, see Coral Reefs.

The question of Dardistan is debated at length in Leitner's Dardistan (1877); Drew's Jummoo and Kashmir Territories (1875); Bidduiph's Tribes of the Hindu-Kush (1880) and Durand's The Making of a Frontier (1899).

The authorship of the poem was much debated, and it.

He travelled, lectured, and preached throughout the United States and in England and Scotland; debated with many Presbyterian champions, with Bishop Purcell of Cincinnati and with Robert Owen; and edited a revision of the New Testament.

The bills taken up for action are debated and freely amended by the committees, and sometimes public hearings are held.

Popular feeling in British Columbia itself was not strongly in favour of union, and the terms under which the new province was to be received were the subject of much negotiation with the provincial authorities, and were keenly debated in parliament before the bill in which they were embodied was finally carried.

As Whip the Master of Elibank earned high praise for his energy and tact; but he was somewhat unfortunately mixed up with the " Marconi Scandal " in connexion with Mr. Lloyd George and Sir Rufus Isaacs, as having invested part of the Liberal Party funds in American Marconi shares in which he, with them, was speculating - a transaction hotly debated in Parliament in 1913.

Whether there was an historic Arthur has been much debated; undoubtedly for many centuries after the appearance of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Britonum (circ. 1136), the statements therein recorded of a mighty monarch, who ruled over Britain in the 5th-6th centuries, and carried his conquests far afield, even to the gates of Rome, obtained general, though not universal, credence.

They preach exactly like could read and write has been much debated him, they have to bring the very same charges against their opponents, who on their part behave exactly as the unbelieving inhabitants of Mecca.

For some time the relative merits or otherwise of administrative or legislative devolution have been debated.

Why Hope made little headway in the jazz scene of the 1940s is a point to be debated.

It was not intended to gage public opinion but to start a political debate around the proposals currently being debated in Parliament.

There, over an almost tearful glass, they debated their position.

The impact of the spiny water flea on the Great Lakes fisheries is still debated.

The most common in modern times is that of a diplomatic convention debated between the authorized mandatories of the high contracting parties and subsequently ratified by the latter; as, for example, the French concordat of 1801.

Woolston (1728) the court declared that they would not suffer it to be debated whether to write against Christianity in general was not an offence punishable in the temporal courts at common law, but they did not intend to include disputes between learned men on particular controverted points.

Whether cerci, stylets and gonapophyses are developed from these rudiments has been much debated.

Here he took part in founding Jena University (1548); opposed the "Augsburg Interim" (1548); superintended the publication of the Jena edition of Luther's works; and debated on the freedom of the will, original sin,'and, more noticeably, on the Christian value of good works, in regard to which he held that they were not only useless, but prejudicial.

In October Cecil had an interview with Mary at Chatsworth, when the conditions of her possible restoration to the throne in compliance with French demands were debated at length.

There, we played pool and debated the semiotics of language.

The controversy between judicial activism and judicial restraint is still heavily debated.

The original design for the cantilever platforms was controversial at the time it was being built, and the chief engineer on the project debated with Wright as to the amount of steel reinforcements needed.

The judges debated the strengths and weaknesses of the contestants, weighing up Tym's ease in front of the camera against David's obvious talent.