controversial

(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:42:25

Con`tro*ver"sial (?), a. [Cf. LL. controversialis.]

Relating to, or consisting of, controversy; disputatious; polemical; as, controversial divinity.

Whole libraries of controversial books. Macaulay.

 

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