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▪ I. controversy, n.|ˈkɒntrəvɜːsɪ|
Also 5–7 contra-, 5– -cye.
[ad. L. contrōversia, n. of quality f. contrōvers-us turned against, disputed; whence also earlier F. controversie (14th–16th c.), and mod.F. controverse, in same sense.]
1. The action of disputing or contending one with another; dispute, debate, contention.
†a. as to rights, claims, and the like. Obs.
1382Wyclif Heb. vi. 16 The ende of al her controuersye or debate is an ooth to confermacioun. 1494Fabyan Chron. an. 7 John (R.), Contrauersy and varyaunce began to aryse amonge y⊇ personys assygned for the iij astatys. 1555Eden Decades W. Ind. i. v. 27 He..made hym a Iudge in causes of controuersie. 1652Needham tr. Selden's Mare Cl. 75 The Carthaginians enjoying the Dominion of the Sea without controversie.
transf.1601Shakes. Jul. C. i. ii. 109 The Torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it..stemming it with hearts of Controuersie.
b. Disputation on a matter of opinion; the contending of opponents one with another on a subject of dispute; discussion in which opposite views are advanced and maintained by opponents. Now chiefly applied to such a discussion conducted in writing.
1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1684) III. 564 It was agreed by both, without Controversie (not one saying contrary) that, etc. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxxix. §3 There is no place left of doubt or controversy. 1644Milton Educ. (1738) 136 To be tossed and turmoiled with their unballasted wits in fathomless and unquiet deeps of controversy. 1650Hobbes Hum. Nat. xiii. (R.), The signs of two opinions contradictory one to another, namely affirmation and negation of the same thing, is called controversy. 1746Wesley Princ. Methodist Pref. 1 This is the first time I have appeared in Controversy properly so called. 1839Keightley Hist. Eng. II. 57 Might put an end to religious controversy. 1875Manning Mission H. Ghost vi. 150 This text has been the subject of endless controversy.
c. Const. at, in controversy: said of persons, or matters in dispute. without, beyond, out of controversy [Lat. sine controversia]: without or beyond dispute, question, or doubt.
1547J. Harrison Exhort. Scottes 218 He without al doubt or controuersy, was very Emperor of al Britayn. 1555Eden Decades 40 The matter is yet in controuersie. 1594West 2nd Pt. Symbol. §1 The facultie or power of pronouncing sentence betweene persons at controversie. 1611Bible Transl. Pref. 5 S. Hierome..the best linguist without controuersie, of his age. 1644Milton Educ. (1738) I. 140 That it should be plain, healthful, and moderate, I suppose is out of controversy. 1777Watson Hist. Philip II (1839) 279 Vitelli, who was, without controversy, the ablest and most experienced general. 1827Jarman Powell's Devises (ed. 3) II. 89 This case was considered to have fixed, beyond controversy, the rule of law upon this subject.
2. (with a and pl.) A dispute, contention.
c1425Wyntoun Cron. vii. vi. 92 Be-twene þame cawsyd wes controversys. 1489Caxton Faytes of A. i. xix. 60 Fyndyng alwayes som controuersies that nede not, but onely for to passe tyme. 1512Act 4 Hen. VIII, c. 11 Variaunces and contraversies..bytwene the seid parties. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, ii. iv. 109 Husbands, Fathers, and betrothed Louers, That shall be swallowed in this Controuersie. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. i. §19. 18 A perpetual War and Controversie in the World..betwixt these two Parties or sects of men. 1845Polson in Encycl. Metrop. 797 In criminal controversies.
b. esp. A debate or dispute on a matter of opinion; a discussion of contrary opinions.
1573G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 11 It were more fruteful for us..to handle sum sad & witti controversi. 1611Bible Transl. Pref. 11 Lest the Authoritie of the Scriptures for deciding of controuersies..should somewhat be shaken. 1713Berkeley Hylas & P. iii. Wks. I. 359 The controversy about Matter..lies altogether between you and the philosophers. 1852H. Rogers Ecl. Faith (1853) 100 The great controversy respecting the ‘Origin of Evil’.
†3. Difference of opinion, disagreement. Obs.
1538Starkey England i. ii. 28 Thys thyng..semyth to be a controuersy..betwyx Arystotyl and Plato. Ibid. i. ii. 44 Thus, Master Lvpset, the thyng dyuersly consyderyd makyth betwyx vs to appere controuersy.
4. Comb., as † controversy-logic, controversy-writer.
1680H. Dodwell Two Lett. Advice (1691) 195 For Controversie Logick I mention nothing. a1691Bp. T. Barlow Rem. 159 (T.) Their schoolmen, casuists, and controversy-writers have so mixed Aristotle's philosophy with their divinity.
▪ II. † ˈcontroversy, v. Obs.
[f. prec. n.]
= controverse v. Hence ˈcontroversying vbl. n.
1593Bilson Govt. Christ's Ch. 108 More controversied than the other two. 1606T. Whetenhall Discov. Abuses Ch. Christ 5 These pointes of religion now controversied among vs. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xviii. x, About which there has been such commentating and controversying. |
