disputative

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The U. S., under the impression that there was still time and room to make up its mind, was arguing along as it always had: in straggling, disputative, disorderly democracy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Therefore he was exactly in that mental condition which would make him a good pupil, because he would be a disputative one.

From A Modern Wizard by Ottolengui, Rodrigues

He passed through Scotland in a disputative vein, which could not have made him a popular traveller.

From George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends by Shorter, Clement King

The conversation ere long recommenced in a more general form, though still in a somewhat disputative tone.

From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte

And about a century before Aristotle reached manhood, they had invented this peculiarly difficult and trying species of disputative pastime, in which we find the genesis of Aristotle's logical treatises.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William