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n. 1. One who approves. Formerly, one who made proof or trial. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An informer; an accuser. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Eng. Law) One who confesses a crime and accuses another. See 1st Approvement, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See 2d Approve, v. t. ] (Eng. Law) A bailiff or steward; an agent. [ Obs. ] Jacobs. [ 1913 Webster ]

A controversy (1886 -- 93) between Great Britain and the United States as to the right of Canadians not licensed by the United States to carry on seal fishing in the Bering Sea, over which the United States claimed jurisdiction as a mare clausum. A court of arbitration, meeting in Paris in 1893, decided against the claim of the United States, but established regulations for the preservation of the fur seal. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. 1. Turning or looking opposite ways. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Controversial. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Controversial. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. controverse. ] Controversy. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. controversari, fr. controversus turned against, disputed. ] To dispute; to controvert. [ Obs. ] “Controversed causes.” Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A disputant. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. LL. controversialis. ] Relating to, or consisting of, controversy; disputatious; polemical; as, controversial divinity.

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Whole libraries of controversial books. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who carries on a controversy; a disputant. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Johnson ] was both intellectually and morally of the stuff of which controversialists are made. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a controversial manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Act of controverting; controversy. [ Obs. ] Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A controverser. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Controversies /plu>. [ L. controversia, fr. controversus turned against, disputed; contro- = contra + versus, p. p. of vertere to turn. See Verse. ] 1. Contention; dispute; debate; discussion; agitation of contrary opinions. [ 1913 Webster ]

This left no room for controversy about the title. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

A dispute is commonly oral, and a controversy in writing. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Quarrel; strife; cause of variance; difference. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Lord hath a controversy with the nations. Jer. xxv. 31. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A suit in law or equity; a question of right. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

When any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment. 2 Sam. xv. 2.

Syn. -- Dispute; debate; disputation; disagreement; altercation; contention; wrangle; strife; quarrel. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Controverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Controverting. ] [ See Controversy. ] To make matter of controversy; to dispute or oppose by reasoning; to contend against in words or writings; to contest; to debate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some controverted points had decided according to the sense of the best jurists. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some controverters in divinity are like swaggerers in a tavern. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being controverted; disputable; admitting of question. -- Con`tro*ver"ti*bly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. One skilled in or given to controversy; a controversialist. [ 1913 Webster ]

How unfriendly is the controvertist to the discernment of the critic! Campbell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who disapproves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who disproves or confutes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who drives cattle or sheep to market; one who makes it his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market. [ 1913 Webster ]

Why, that's spoken like an honest drover; so they sell bullocks. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A boat driven by the tide. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Extrorse. ] 1. The condition of being turned wrong side out; as, extroversion of the bladder. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Psychol.) the trait of being interested primarily in things in one's external environement, rather than one's own thoughts and feelings. [ PJC ]

3. (Psychol.) the act of directing one's interests primarily toward things in one's external environement, rather than one's own thoughts and feelings. [ PJC ]

1. (Psychol.) same as extroverted. [ PJC ]

n. (Psychol.) A person who is extroverted; a person who is marked by an interest in others or concerned primarily with external reality. Contrasted with introvert. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adj. 1. (Psychol.) directed outward; marked by an interest in other people or concerned primarily with external reality.
Syn. -- extrovert, extravert, extraverted, extravertive, extroversive, extraversive. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. One who, or that which, improves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or condition of being incontrovertible. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not controvertible; too clear or certain to admit of dispute; indisputable. Sir T. Browne. -- In*con`tro*ver"ti*ble*ness, n. -- In*con`tro*ver"ti*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Introvert. ] The act of introverting, or the state of being introverted; the act of turning the mind inward. Berkeley. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. (Psychol.) directed inward; marked by interest in oneself or concerned with inner feelings. Contrasted with extroversive. [ Narrower terms: introvert, introverted, introvertive; introvertish, shut-in ]. Antonym: ambiversive. Also See: unsociable. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Introverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Introverting. ] [ Pref. intro- + L. vertere, versum, to turn. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To turn or bend inward. “Introverted toes.” Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To look within; to introspect. Lew Wallace. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A person who is introverted; one concerned predominantly with himself or his own feelings. Contrasted with extrovert. [ PJC ]

2. A person who is shy. [ PJC ]

3. (Zool.) A part that can be introverted{ 1 }. [ PJC ]

adj. 1. examining one's own sensory and perceptual experiences. Contrasted with extrospective.
Syn. -- introspective. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. marked by concern predominantly with oneself or one's own feelings. Contrasted with extroverted.
Syn. -- introvert, introvertive. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adj. somewhat introverted.
Syn. -- shut-in. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. same as introverted, 2.
Syn. -- introvert, introverted. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. One who, or that which, proves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. proverbe, F. proverbe, from L. proverbium; pro before, for + verbum a word. See Verb. ] 1. An old and common saying; a phrase which is often repeated; especially, a sentence which briefly and forcibly expresses some practical truth, or the result of experience and observation; a maxim; a saw; an adage. Chaucer. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A striking or paradoxical assertion; an obscure saying; an enigma; a parable. [ 1913 Webster ]

His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb. John xvi. 29. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A familiar illustration; a subject of contemptuous reference. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by word, among all nations. Deut. xxviii. 37. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A drama exemplifying a proverb. [ 1913 Webster ]

Book of Proverbs, a canonical book of the Old Testament, containing a great variety of wise maxims. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Maxim; aphorism; apothegm; adage; saw. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To name in, or as, a proverb. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Am I not sung and proverbed for a fool ? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To provide with a proverb. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To write or utter proverbs. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. proverbialis: cf. F. proverbial. ] 1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. [ 1913 Webster ]

In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to proverbs; resembling a proverb. “A proverbial obscurity.” Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A proverbial phrase. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who makes much use of proverbs in speech or writing; one who composes, collects, or studies proverbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ Cf. F. proverbialiser. ] To turn into a proverb; to speak in proverbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a proverbial manner; by way of proverb; hence, commonly; universally; as, it is proverbially said; the bee is proverbially busy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, reproves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. rétroversion. See Retrovert. ] A turning or bending backward; also, the state of being turned or bent backward; displacement backwards; as, retroversion of the uterus. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In retroversion the bending is gradual or curved; in retroflexion it is abrupt or angular. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Retroverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Retroverting. ] [ Pref. retro- + L. vertere, versum, to turn. Cf. Retrorse. ] To turn back. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. In a state of retroversion. [ 1913 Webster ]