3. A suit in law or equity; a question of right. [Obs.]
When any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment.
2 Sam. xv. 2.
Syn. — Dispute; debate; disputation; disagreement; altercation; contention; wrangle; strife; quarrel.
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.
Controverter
(Con"tro*ver`ter) n. One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist.
Some controverters in divinity are like swaggerers in a tavern.
B. Jonson.
Controvertible
(Con`tro*ver"ti*ble) a. Capable of being controverted; disputable; admitting of question. —
Con`tro*ver"ti*bly, adv.
Controvertist
(Con"tro*ver`tist) n. One skilled in or given to controversy; a controversialist.
How unfriendly is the controvertist to the discernment of the critic!
Campbell.
Contubernal
(Con*tu"ber*nal Con`tu*ber"ni*al) , a. [L. contubernalis a tent companion, fr. contubernium
tent companionship.] Living or messing together; familiar; in companionship.
Humble folk ben Christes friends: they ben contubernial with the Lord, thy King.
Chaucer.
Contumacious
(Con`tu*ma"cious) a. [L. contumax, -acis. See Contumacy.]
1. Exhibiting contumacy; contemning authority; obstinate; perverse; stubborn; disobedient.
There is another very, efficacious method for subding the most obstinate, contumacious sinner.
Hammond.
2. (Law) Willfully disobedient to the summous or prders of a court. Blackstone.
Syn. — Stubborn; obstinate; obdurate; disobedient; perverse; unyielding; headstrong.
— Con`tu*ma"cious*ly, adv. — Con`tu*ma"cious*ness, n.
Contumacy
(Con"tu*ma*cy) n.; pl. Contumacies [L. contumacia, fr. contumax, -acis, insolent; prob.
akin to contemnere to despise: cf. F. contumace. Cf. Contemn.]
1. Stubborn perverseness; pertinacious resistance to authority.
The bishop commanded him . . . to be thrust into the stocks for his manifest and manifold contumacy.
Strype.
2. (Law) A willful contempt of, and disobedience to, any lawful summons, or to the rules and orders of
court, as a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned.
Syn. — Stubbornness; perverseness; obstinacy.
Contumelious
(Con`tu*me"li*ous) a. [L. contumeliosus.]
