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Definition of Controvert

Controvert
Controvert Con"tro*vert, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Controverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Controverting.] [See Controversy.] To make matter of controversy; to dispute or oppose by reasoning; to contend against in words or writings; to contest; to debate. Some controverted points had decided according to the sense of the best jurists. --Macaulay.

Meaning of Controvert from wikipedia

- court to stay an indictment for perjury as the indictment was found to controvert the respondent's earlier acquittal for murder. The court held that charging...
- Thomas Henry (1892). "Agnosticism And Christianity". Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions. Macmillan. p. 364. Agnosticism And Christianity: Therefore...
- or unknown, visible or invisible to astronomers. For, who is able to controvert the theory previously suggested, that the earth itself will, like the...
- notion of Gr****: diaspora/Hebrew: Palestine in matters of canon has been controverted by clear evidence of the circulation of the Septuagint in Palestine....
- March 2019. Cowie, D. J. (1934). "How Christchurch Got Its Name – A Controverted Subject". Victoria University of Wellington. Archived from the original...
- they think, are totally implausible, unbelievable, disre****ble, and controvertible, for they go beyond the bounds of reason. Militant atheists can find...
- are "of one substance", and the issues it raised would be seriously controverted in the ****ure. At the end of the creed came a list of anathemas, designed...
- followed Travels With Charley's trail using the author's own diaries controverted the book's accuracy, casting Steinbeck's claimed reportage as largely...
- vertere adverse, adversity, advertise, anniversary, avert, controversy, controvert, conversant, conversation, converse, convert, diversify, divert, extrovert...
- perjury following a previous acquittal where a finding of perjury would controvert the acquittal. This was confirmed in the case of R v Carroll, where the...