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Terminate :: Terminate (v. t.) To put an end to; to make to cease; as, to terminate an effort, or a controversy..

Controversy :: Controversy (n.) A suit in law or equity; a question of right.

Determine :: Determine (v. t.) To bring to a conclusion, as a question or controversy; to settle authoritative or judicial sentence; to decide; as, the court has determined the cause..

Argument :: Argument (n.) A process of reasoning, or a controversy made up of rational proofs; argumentation; discussion; disputation..

Syncretistic :: Syncretist (n.) an adherent of George Calixtus and other Germans of the seventeenth century, who sought to unite or reconcile the Protestant sects with each other and with the Roman Catholics, and thus occasioned a long and violent controversy in the Lutheran church..

Aggress :: Aggress (v. i.) To commit the first act of hostility or offense; to begin a quarrel or controversy; to make an attack; -- with on.

Predestinarian :: Predestinarian (a.) Of or pertaining to predestination; as, the predestinarian controversy..

Faser :: Faser (n.) A blow in the face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy..

Debatable :: Debatable (a.) Liable to be debated; disputable; subject to controversy or contention; open to question or dispute; as, a debatable question..

Disputation :: Disputation (v. i.) 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..

Controverse :: Controverse (n.) Controversy.

Disagreement :: Disagreement (n.) A falling out, or controversy; difference..

Contentious :: Contentious (a.) Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy.

Intricacy :: Intricacy (n.) The state or quality of being intricate or entangled; perplexity; involution; complication; complexity; that which is intricate or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a cause in controversy; the intricacy of a plot..

Aggression :: Aggression (n.) The first attack, or act of hostility; the first act of injury, or first act leading to a war or a controversy; unprovoked attack; assault; as, a war of aggression. Aggressions of power..

Philopolemical :: Philopolemical (a.) Fond of polemics or controversy.

Disputant :: Disputant (v. i.) Disputing; engaged in controversy.

Arbitrator :: Arbitrator (n.) A person, or one of two or more persons, chosen by parties who have a controversy, to determine their differences. See Arbitration..

Decisive :: Decisive (a.) Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.

Variance :: Variance (n.) Difference that produce dispute or controversy; disagreement; dissension; discord; dispute; quarrel.

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