noun
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An argument or disagreement, a failure to agree.
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Verbal controversy or disagreement; altercation; debate.
verb
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To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another
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To make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss
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Some residents disputed the proposal, saying it was based more on emotion than fact.
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To oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of
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to dispute assertions or arguments
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To strive or contend about; to contest
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To struggle against; to resist
Examples of dispute in a Sentence
I hate to dispute you, but I'm not miserable.
In case of dispute the judges dealt first with the contract.
The charcoal man and his wife listened to this little dispute, and said nothing.
Still, one would not dispute whether God existed; but what he was - that was the hard question.
I don't dispute the cliché, "Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it."
There is a dispute as to his real desings.
In 1871 the dispute which had been carried on since 1831 between the duke and the diet about the rights of each to the state domains was settled by a compromise, each party receiving a share of the revenues.
He oIdducai left his domains to a natural relative, Cesare dEste, families, who would in earlier days have inherited without dispute, for bastardy had been no bar on more than one occasion in the Este pedigree.
They had not yet had a loud conversation among the men and a dispute about something important and clever.
Soon after his consecration he opened negotiations with the emperor with a view to settling the dispute over investiture.
In England the dispute between Canterbury and York was settled by making them both primates, giving Canterbury the further honour of being primate of all England.
Chile refused to submit the dispute to arbitration, and it remained unsettled.
In 112 he was one of the commissioners sent to Africa to arrange the dispute between Jugurtha and Adherbal.
The canon provides that any clerk having a complaint against another clerk must not pass by his own bishop and turn to secular tribunals, but first lay b a re his cause before him, so that by the sentence of the bishop himself the dispute may be settled by arbitrators acceptable to both parties.
The female is a segmented, wormlike creature, spending her whole life within the body of the bee, wasp or bug on which she is parasitic. One end of her body protrudes from between two of the abdominal segments of the host; it has been a subject of dispute whether this protruded end is the head or the tail, but there can be little doubt that it is the latter.
You know how dear Vera wanted a chiffonier like that and how we had a dispute about it.
They ascribe the glory of that achievement of genius to different men and dispute as to whom the honor is due.
The territory in which these settlements had been made was involved in the boundary dispute between Massachusetts and New Hampshire, which was settled in 1741 by a decision of the king in council favourable to New Hampshire (q.v.).
After leaving public life he resumed the practice of the law, and in 1898 was retained by the government of Venezuela as its leading counsel in the arbitration of its boundary dispute with Great Britain.
This is still under dispute.
In March 1885 when the RussoAfghan Boundary Commission should have been engaged in settling the boundary-line, this portion of it was in dispute between the Afghans and the Russians.
The dispute on the latter point between Fermat and Descartes was continued, even after the philosopher's death, as late as 1662.
The boundary dispute with Chile, to which reference has already been made, was of a more serious character.
The first question which he had to handle was the Chilean boundary dispute.
The Neapolitans reached Bologna on the 17th of May, but in the meantime a dispute had broken out at Naples between the king and parliament as to the nature of the royal oath; a cry of treason was raised by a group of factious youngsters, barricades were erected and street fighting ensued (May Is).
In March 1902 agrarian strikes organized by the leg/fe broke out in the district of Copparo and Polesine (lower valley of the Po), owing to a dispute about the labor contracts, and in Apulia on account of unemployment.
An example of this is found in the ninth canon of Chalcedon, which also illustrates the enforcement upon a clerical plaintiff in dispute with a brother cleric of that recourse to the arbitration of their ecclesiastical superior already mentioned.
The doctrine long continued to be one of the main subjects in dispute between the Scotists and the Thomists, or, what is almost the same thing, between the Franciscans and the Dominicans.
This right had been in dispute for several years.
On the death of the emperor Alexander in December 1825 Prince Menshikov was sent to Teheran to settle a dispute which had arisen between the two governments regarding the prescribed frontier.
Another who wished to gain some advantage would attract the Emperor's attention by loudly advocating the very thing the Emperor had hinted at the day before, and would dispute and shout at the council, beating his breast and challenging those who did not agree with him to duels, thereby proving that he was prepared to sacrifice himself for the common good.
Though the controversy went on, its most important result had already been achieved in the silencing of Convocation, for that body, though it had just "seemed to be settling down to its proper work in dealing with the real exigencies of the church" when the Hoadly dispute arose, did not meet again for the despatch of business for nearly a century and a half.
In 1841-1843 he was in Europe on behalf of the Tyler administration, and he is said to have been instrumental in causing the appointment of Lord Ashburton to negotiate in Washington concerning the boundary dispute between Maine and Canada.
The dispute was fought out in Flanders; but Spanish Lombardy felt the shock, as usual, of the French and Austrian dynasties.
The dispute was to have been decided in the lists at Coventry in September; but at the last moment Richard intervened and banished them both.
The long-standing Newfoundland fishery dispute with France (finally settled in 1904) is dealt with under Newfoundland.
Maupertuis got into a dispute with one Kiinig.
In 1894 a dispute necessitated the formulation of the " Asquith award " by the Rt.
The origin of London will probably always remain a subject of dispute for want of decisive facts.
But a dispute with Francis, more than usually embittered, led in August 1780 to a minute being delivered to the council board by Hastings, in which he stated that "he judged of the public conduct of Mr Francis by his experience of his private, which he had found to be void of truth and honour."
There must be genuine progress toward the resolution of the dispute.
For several centuries before 1740 the fisheries were the cause of constant dispute between Lowestoft and Yarmouth.
Under the Florida treaty of 1819-21 a portion of the Red river was to be the northern boundary of Texas east of the tooth meridian, but as there are two branches of%the river meeting east of the meridian the enclosed territory (Greer county) was in dispute.
On the 4th of May the temper of the council on the doctrinal questions in dispute was fully revealed in its unanimous condemnation of Wycliffe, especially of the so-called "forty-five articles" as erroneous, heretical, revolutionary.
The foundation of belief was the Bible, not any one branch of the Catholic church arrogating to itself infallibility, and when dispute.
The first subject of dispute was the inheritance of the count of Provence, Raymond-Berenger IV., father of Margaret and of Eleanor, wife of Henry III.
A massacre of Persians at Kerbela might have seriously complicated the dispute, but, after a first burst of indignation and call for vengeance, an expression of the regret of the Ottoman government was accepted as a sufficient apology for the occurrence.
In the end of the 12th century, and on into the following, Glastonbury was distracted by a strange dispute, caused by the attempt of Savaric, the ambitious bishop of Bath, to make himself master of the abbey.
In each township there are from two to five justices of the peace, any one of whom may preside over the " small cause court," which has jurisdiction of cases in which the matter in dispute does not exceed $too and is not an action of replevin, one in which the charge is slander, trespass or assault, battery or imprisonment, or in which the title to real estate is in question.
In 1678 the Turks succeeded in taking Cehrin, but their losses were very heavy, and on the 8th of January 1681 a treaty was signed at Radzyn whereby the territory in dispute was ceded to Russia.