Crossword clues for debating
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Debate \De*bate"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Debated; p. pr. & vb. n. Debating.] [OF. debatre, F. d['e]battre; L. de + batuere to beat. See Batter, v. t., and cf. Abate.]
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To engage in combat for; to strive for.
Volunteers . . . thronged to serve under his banner, and the cause of religion was debated with the same ardor in Spain as on the plains of Palestine.
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To contend for in words or arguments; to strive to maintain by reasoning; to dispute; to contest; to discuss; to argue for and against.
A wise council . . . that did debate this business.
--Shak.Debate thy cause with thy neighbor himself.
--Prov. xxv. 9.Syn: To argue; discuss; dispute; controvert. See Argue, and Discuss.
Debating \De*bat"ing\, n. The act of discussing or arguing; discussion.
Debating society or Debating club, a society or club for the purpose of debate and improvement in extemporaneous speaking.
Wiktionary
n. The act of taking part in a debate. vb. (present participle of debate English)
Usage examples of "debating".
Hardly any other foreign topic engaged the debating powers of the members, except the all-absorbing one of the hostile proceedings of Russia against Turkey.
And, without that supply, we might now have been debating here how Mr.
Then, to crown all, came the debating society, with the schoolmaster presiding, and the entire neighborhood, sweethearts and all, in attendance, and the boys for the first time testing their oratorical powers.
Fessenden, who left little to be said, as was his habit in debating any question of constitutional law.
He took active part in the proceedings of the day, debating at some length the bill proposing an appropriation for the Centennial celebration at Philadelphia.
He would not be stood debating with himself in this accursed land if that had happened.
Chop, debating the reality of magic with Lord Arlen and his inquisitors.
Sleepless and unarmed, he sits whole nights in his closet, debating with reverend graybeards, and turning over the pages of ecclesiastical volumes.
Thus he presented the singular spectacle of a President who, in the midst of a great civil war, with unprecedented duties weighing upon him, was constantly in person debating the great features of his policy with the people.
Sinclair and Fulton used to spend many after-session evenings in their parliamentary offices, drinking and loudly debating the merits of their rival political parties.
September 27 Throne Speech, only eight relatively insignificant items were passed into law and only two pieces of important legislation - a bill to establish a National Economic Development Board and a measure to allay the impact of automation - ever reached the debating stage.
For Kikin had dashed out from London as soon as he had got word that a Russian galley was approaching Rotherhithe and, to his credit, had only been struck catatonic for thirty seconds or so after he had walked into the ship-yard to be confronted with the spectacle of the Tsar of All the Russias debating the fine points of hull design with Mr.
He made it to be as if, from the beginning, I had known that Psyche's lover was a god, and as if all my doublings, fears, guessings, debatings, questionings of Bardia, questionings of the Fox, all the rummage and business of it, had been trumped-up foolery, dust blown in my own eyes by myself.