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3. Subject of discussion. [R.]

Statutes and edicts concerning this debate.

Milton.

Debateful
(De*bate"ful) a. Full of contention; contentious; quarrelsome. [Obs.] Spenser.

Debatefully
(De*bate"ful*ly), adv. With contention. [Obs.]

Debatement
(De*bate"ment) n. [Cf. OF. debatement a beating.] Controversy; deliberation; debate. [R.]

A serious question and debatement with myself.

Milton.

Debater
(De*bat"er) n. One who debates; one given to argument; a disputant; a controvertist.

Debate where leisure serves with dull debaters.

Shak.

Debating
(De*bat"ing), n. The act of discussing or arguing; discussion.

Debating societyor club, a society or club for the purpose of debate and improvement in extemporaneous speaking.

Debatingly
(De*bat"ing*ly), adv. In the manner of a debate.

Debauch
(De*bauch") v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Debauched ; p. pr. & vb. n. Debauching.] [F. débaucher, prob. originally, to entice away from the workshop; pref. dé- (L. dis- or de) + OF. bauche, bauge, hut, cf. F. bauge lair of a wild boar; prob. from G. or Icel., cf. Icel. balkr. See Balk, n.] To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch an army.

Learning not debauched by ambition.

Burke.

A man must have got his conscience thoroughly debauched and hardened before he can arrive to the height of sin.

South.

Her pride debauched her judgment and her eyes.

Cowley.

Debauch
(De*bauch"), n. [Cf. F. débauche.]

1. Excess in eating or drinking; intemperance; drunkenness; lewdness; debauchery.

The first physicians by debauch were made.

Dryden.

2. An act or occasion of debauchery.

Silenus, from his night's debauch,
Fatigued and sick.

Cowley.

Debauched
(De*bauched") a. Dissolute; dissipated. "A coarse and debauched look." Ld. Lytton.

Debauchedly
(De*bauch"ed*ly) adv. In a profligate manner.

Debauchedness
(De*bauch"ed*ness), n. The state of being debauched; intemperance. Bp. Hall.

Debauchee
(Deb`au*chee") n. [F. débauché, n., properly p. p. of débaucher. See Debauch, v. t.] One who is given to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a man habitually lewd; a libertine.

Debaucher
(De*bauch"er) n. One who debauches or corrupts others; especially, a seducer to lewdness.