disputation

Hitchens loved what he called "disputation" – there was little difference between his public and private speaking styles – and America, a more oral culture than Britain's, offered ample opportunity.

Christopher Hitchens obituary 2011

The subject of the disputation is not piety, but the motives to piety; that of the description is not God, but the works of God.

Dr. Johnson on religious verse « Unknowing 2010

Federico reveled in disputation, aiming to learn "some new thing each day."

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

Note 145: "After he had heard the Ethics many times, comprehending them so thoroughly that his teachers found him hard to cope with in disputation, he studied the Politics assiduously."

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

STRANGER: And there is a private sort of controversy, which is cut up into questions and answers, and this is commonly called disputation?

The Sophist 2006

This brought him into peril of his life, with which he narrowly escaped: The Grecians, when they found they could not deal with him in disputation, contrived to silence him another way; they went about to slay him, as they did Stephen when they could not resist the Spirit by which he spoke, ch. vi.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

When men are once advanced into that field of disputation, which is all overgrown with thorns of subtleties, perplexed notions, and futilous terms of art, they consider principally how they may entangle others in it, scarce at all how they may get out of it themselves.

The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965

The disputation was a preparation for the disputations which formed part of what we should now term the degree examinations.

Life in the Medieval University Robert S. Rait

Divinity; & so spent all the time at Meat in Latin disputation.

The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1 A. M. W. [Compiler] Stirling

Questiones disputatae were special treatises on the more difficult or the more important topics, and as the name implied, followed the method of debate prevalent in the schools, generally called disputation or determination.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913