It is controvertible when a doubtful cause is alleged, for the sake of proving a doubtful point; in this manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference
The real core of ID, however, is a very controvertible thesis about the relation between an effect's exemplar cause and its proximate efficient cause. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-11-01] Reference
Whatever advantage CBS thought the documents gave them in covering the story of Bush's "service," his inadequacies as a Guardsman have been well documented elsewhere with non-controvertible evidence. From Wordnik.com. [We interrupt your regularly scheduled panic attack] Reference
So, in fairness, I do need to note that my argument about real freethough does in one point depend on a controvertible claim: That T. H. Huxley is a reasonable model for a freethinker to take. posted by Brandon | 1:34 AM. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-06-01] Reference
In the late war between France and Spain a crisis occurred in which it seemed probable that all controvertible principles involved in such wars might be brought into discussion and settled to the satisfaction of all parties. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
In view of the fact that he, a man of well-known partisan proclivities, may be charged with criticising his defenceless and dead contemporaries the author says that he endeavored to substantiate "every controvertible and important conclusion.". From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916] Reference
It is, in some sense, a real puzzle: there is nothing particularly deterministic about Newtonian physics; many who accepted Newtonian physics I would go so far as to say the overwhelming majority were not determinists, and were clearly not inconsistent in this; you can only get rationally from Newtonian physics to determinism by a vast number of controvertible suppositions; and so forth. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-07-01] Reference
But he hastily goes on to an assertion which seems arbitrary and controvertible. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Arnold] Reference
Now don't attempt to extirpate yourself from the matter; you know I have proof controvertible of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Rivals A Comedy] Reference
"It is controvertible and it is unreasonable," said Phillips, by now the colour of a bloodshot beetroot. From Wordnik.com. [PLIGG_Visual_Name - PLIGG_Visual_RSS_All] Reference
North regarded war as almost inevitable, although the controvertible proof of explosion from without only involved the Spanish by inference. From Wordnik.com. [Senator North] Reference
The merits of the plan independently of the question of equity, are also controvertible, tho 'on the other side there are advantages which have considerable weight. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of James Madison] Reference
The fecond is the moft encumbered with notes, becaufe the principles it contains being chiefly controvertible, required the fupport of a greater accumulation of proof. From Wordnik.com. [A treatise on man, his intellectual faculties and his education] Reference
All this is doubtless controvertible, and what has been written may serve only to amuse or to disgust those who are better versed in the facts of our history and keener analysts of its laws. From Wordnik.com. [The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915] Reference
It appears from un - controvertible authority 'that the IKans and Phrygians, were wont to offer facrifice upon Mount Ida, and upon other high places near Troy, as appears from a paffagc in Homer, where. From Wordnik.com. [A General History of Ireland, in Its Antient and Modern State] Reference
Since Oregon adopted Vote by Mail as its sole voting option in 1998, the state#146; s turnout has increased, concerns about fraud have decreased, a complete paper trail exists for every election, recounts are non-controvertible and both major political parties have gained voters. From Wordnik.com. [Random feeds from Syndic8.com] Reference
He would select the most crabbed passages to quote and defend; he would stammer out his piquant and masterful half sentences, his scalding jests, his controvertible assertions; he would skilfully hint at the defects which no one else was permitted to see; and if he made no converts (wanting none), he woke no weary wrath. From Wordnik.com. [Americans and Others] Reference
I recommend is still controvertible; the etymology which I adopt is uncertain, and, perhaps, frequently erroneous; the explanations are sometimes too much contracted, and sometimes too much diffused; the significations are distinguished rather with subtilty than skill, and the attention is harassed with unnecessary minuteness. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces] Reference
The work, whatever proofs of diligence and attention it may exhibit, is yet capable of many improvements; the orthography which I recommend is still controvertible, the etymology which I adopt is uncertain, and perhaps frequently erroneous; the explanations are sometimes too much contracted, and sometimes too much diffused, the significations are distinguished rather with subtlety than skill, and the attention is harassed with unnecessary minuteness. From Wordnik.com. [Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations] Reference
Traditionally I was inclined to mentally amend the former to the latter, but I’ve learned that this ‘correction’ is controvertible. From Wordnik.com. [September « 2008 « Sentence first] Reference
One thing: be controvertible, it always helps. From Wordnik.com. [Top Ten Things You Can Do To Get Blogged] Reference
A filence when un - controvertible fa6ls are advanced, and a profecu - tion where any th'mg is uttered cohtrary to the chicanery of the laws, ht) wcver juft it may be in reafon. From Wordnik.com. [The babler. Containing a careful selection from those entertaining and interesting essays, which have given the public so much satisfaction under that title during a course of four years, in Owen's weekly chronicle ..] Reference
As opposed to a "controvertible fact"?. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
That, we hold, is a controvertible question. From Wordnik.com. [Jarwin and Cuffy] Reference
A controvertible hereafter?. From Wordnik.com. [The Californians] Reference
"kikes" is a controvertible term for cakes. From Wordnik.com. [Paste Jewels] Reference
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