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Webster 1913 Edition

Eristical

{

E-ris′tic

,

E-ris′tic-al

, }

Adj.

[Gr. [GREEK], fr. [GREEK] to strive, wrangle, [GREEK] strife.]

Controversial.

[Archaic]

A specimen of admirable special pleading in the court of

eristic

logic.

Coleridge.