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

The disputative part, interesting in itself, does not here concern us.

From Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel translated and annotated by Emilie Michaelis ... and H. Keatley Moore. by Michaelis, Emilie

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

The disputative, dialectical tone which assists in the work was the ordinary mode of instruction in the mediæval universities, and finds a parallel in the method of thought observable in other ages.

From History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion by Farrar, Adam Storey

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From George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends by Shorter, Clement King