disputable, disputable

[Fr., from Lat. disputabilis.] 1. That may or can be disputed; open to dispute, argument, question, or controversy; controvertible. "Points of doctrine disputable in schools."-State Trials; Edmund Campion (1581). *2. Given to argument or controversy; disputa. tious. "And I have been all this day to avoid him. He is too disputable for my company." -Shakesp .: As You Like It, Li. 5. †dis'-pu-ta-ble-ne , s . [Eng. disputable ; -ne .] The quality of being disputable, controvertible, or open to question. "Through the disputablene and unwarrantable ne of their authority." - J. Philips: Long Parliament Revived. *dis-pu-tăç-1-ty, s . [Formed from Lat. disputo , on the analogy of other nouns in -acitas .] A propensity or pronene to disputation. "Lest they should dull the wits, and hinder the exercise of reasoning, [and] abate the dis put a city of the nation."-Bp. Wara: Serm., Jan. 30, 1674, p. 33.