Dis`pu*ta"tious (?), a. Inclined
to dispute; apt to civil or controvert; characterized by dispute; as,
a disputatious person or temper.
The Christian doctrine of a future life was no
recommendation of the new religion to the wits and philosophers of
that disputations period.
Buckminster.
-- Dis`pu*ta"tious*ly, adv. --
Dis`pu*ta"tious*ness, n.