Polemic

[pə'lemɪk] or [pə'lɛmɪk]

Definition

(noun.) a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma).

(adj.) of or involving dispute or controversy .

Typed by Jared--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) Of or pertaining to controversy; maintaining, or involving, controversy; controversial; disputative; as, a polemic discourse or essay; polemic theology.

(a.) Engaged in, or addicted to, polemics, or to controversy; disputations; as, a polemic writer.

(n.) One who writes in support of one opinion, doctrine, or system, in opposition to another; one skilled in polemics; a controversialist; a disputant.

(n.) A polemic argument or controversy.

Typed by Brandon

Definition

adj. given to disputing: controversial.—n. one who disputes: one who speaks or writes in opposition to another: a controversy.—adv. Polem′ically.—n.sing. Polem′ics contest or controversy: (theol.) the history of ecclesiastical controversy.—n. Pol′emoscope a perspective glass so constructed as to give views of objects not lying directly before the eye.

Typist: Sol