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Answer for the clue "One versed in disputation ", 8 letters:
polemist

Word definitions for polemist in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A polemicist

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology) [syn: polemicist , polemic ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Polemist \Pol"e*mist\, n. A polemic. [R.]

Usage examples of polemist.

In Montreal the lectures of the Italian polemist were attended by disturbances more serious and more general.

Though diffuse, like all Russian journalists, and truculent, like all those of the sixties, he was a born polemist and a past master in the art of killing his enemies.

So that, as usually happens in the writings of all polemists, no matter upon which side they may write, but little information, and that distorted to an incredible degree, is all that they afford.

Protestants, they were generally assailed with brutal violence, their places of worship attacked, and the persons of the preachers or polemists fiercely assaulted.