The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dispute \Dis*pute"\, n. [Cf. F. dispute. See Dispute, v. i.]
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Verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial discussion; altercation; debate.
Addicted more To contemplation and profound dispute.
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Contest; struggle; quarrel.
--De Foe.Beyond dispute, Without dispute, indisputably; incontrovertibly.
Syn: Altercation; controversy; argumentation; debate; discussion; quarrel; disagreement; difference; contention; wrangling. See Altercation.
Usage examples of "beyond dispute".
From this and other types of experiment, it is beyond dispute that, even by the most rigid of the criteria used by mammalian psychologists, Drosophila show not merely habituation and sensitization but classical and operant conditioning based on visual, olfactory and even touch cues.
His madness, or at least his partial perversion, seemed beyond dispute.
That Classmate X was indeed Max's former colleague seemed beyond dispute: no one else in East Campus had had the practical knowledge required for EASCAC's development, which Leonid knew his stepfather had directed.
The reason--if I could only have mentioned it--was beyond dispute.
Their answer to the charge of plotting against the life of Eumenes was the most laboured part of their speech and the one which made the least impression, for the facts were beyond dispute.
Which may be farther put beyond dispute by the following demonstration: that whoever will examine the writings in all kinds, wherewith this ancient sect has honoured the world, shall immediately find, from the whole thread and tenor of them, that the ideas of the authors have been altogether conversant and taken up with the faults and blemishes, and oversights, and mistakes of other writers.
In the last hours of life, while tortured with the remembrance of his crime, he resolved to make all the atonement that remained for him, and having swallowed the potion, he immediately sent for a confessor to take a full confession of his guilt, and two notaries, and thus established Adeline beyond dispute in the rights of her birth.
In any case, what is beyond dispute is that the tour was a financial disaster.
That he had planned her death was beyond dispute, but his plan had been to drown her one night after they had left Tung-kwan by river.