argumental (argumental)

[ Thus they dispute, guilding their tongues' report With instances and argument all sawes. G. Markham , Sir R. Grinuile (Arb. reprint), p. 49. I am at length recovered from my argumental delirium. Johnson, Rambler, No. 95. argumentation (är"gū-men-ta's hon), n. [= F. argumentation , argumentatio ( n- ), argu mentari , pp. argument at us , adduco as proof: see argument, v.] 1. The setting forth of reasons together with the conclusion drawn from them; also, the premises and conclusion so set forth. Those scholastic forms of discourse are not le liable to fallacies than the plainer ways of argumentation . Locke. Argumentation or reasoning is that operation of the mind whereby we infer one thing, that is, one proposition, from two or more propositions premised. Watts , Logic, Int. 2. A course of reasoning; discu ion; debate. The relation of his meaning to science is e ential, but, in orderly argumentation , subsequent. Pop . Sci . Mo. , XXVIII. 619. =Syn. See reasoning. argumentative (är-gū-men'ta-tiv), a. [F. argument at if , argumentativus , argu ment at us: see argumentation .] 1. Consisting in argument; containing a proce of reasoning; controversial: as, an argumentative dis IMG:content-1113.png:[blocks in formation] 3. Addicted to argument; disputatious: as, an argumentative writer; he is very argumentative. argumentatively (är-gū-men'ta-tiv-li), adv. In an argumentative manner; with respect to reasoning or arguments. Bowles, in losing his temper, lost also what little logic he had, and though in a vague way æsthetically right, contrived always to be argumentatively wrong. Lowell , Study Windows, p. 430. argumentative ne (är-gū-men ́ta-tiv-nes), n. The quality of being argumentative. Thus was the young, vacant mind furnished with much talk about Progre of the Species, Dark Ages, Prejudice, and the like, so that all were quickly enough blown out into a state of windy argumentative ne . Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, p. 78. 307 spots. The general plumage is brown, variegated with lighter and darker tracery. The female is a plain bird, lacking the extraordinary development of the wing and tail-feathers. 4. A genus of gastropods. Bohadsch, 1761. -5. A genus of lepidopterous insects. Sco Poli, 1777.-6. A genus of arachnidans. Walker, 1837.-7. [ l. c.] A name of certain eur yale an ophiurians, or sand-stars with branching arms. Shetland argus, the As trophy ton (or Euryale ) scutatum, or gorgon's-head, a kind of basket-fish, basket-urchin, or sea basket, sometimes measuring a foot acro . The ultimate ramifications of its rays are estimated to be some 80,000 in number. See As trophy ton and basket -fish.