Sentence examples for the disputation from inspiring English sources
noun
The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal contest respecting the truth of some fact, opinion, proposition, or argument.
But too much should not be made of the disputation.
"The Disputation" occurs in Spain during the Middle Ages, when Christians and Jews publicly debated ideas.
Viret led the disputation of Lausanne (October 1536) and subsequently organized the Reformed Church throughout the Vaud.
His invitation to Pakistan's leader was seen as an act of statesmanship, but Pakistan did better at exploiting the disputation at the summit that followed.
One early academic champion was the Parisian master Abelard, who cunningly used the format of the disputation to point up the apparent inconsistencies in orthodox Christian doctrine.
At Baden in 1526, he debated for the Reformation against Roman Catholicism, and again in 1528 he supported the Reformers at the disputation at Bern.
He took part in the disputations of Baden (1526) and Bern (1528), the latter marking the victory of the Reformation in that city.
After moving to Chicago, the Terkels managed hotels popular with blue-collar workers, and Mr. Terkel often said that the characters he encountered and the disputations he witnessed at the Wells-Grand Hothe oNeare NorthNorth Side were his real education.
For the disputations that are engendered by technical aspects of double jeopardy as enshrined in the Fifth Amendment, see the majority and dissenting opinions in Ex parte Lange, 18 Wall.
(The best account of the Disputations is the article by Anthony Grafton listed in Pichiana by Quaquarelli and Zanardi).
In the Disputations that he did not live to finish, Pico now rejected this static mytho-history.
