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polemicall

polemicall is the obsolete form of polemical.

Meaning of polemical

Adjective

polemical (comparative more polemical, superlative most polemical)

  1. Being an attempt to evaluate the arguments comprehensively.
    • […] in order to give a comprehensive critical and polemical analysis of the Dictionary in question, a whole book would be needed.1996, Igor Diakonoff, Leonid Kogan, “Addenda et Corrigenda to Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary by V. Orel and O. Stolbova”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, volume...
  2. (derogatory) Prone to causing disputes; inclined to causing the expression of opposing opinions, disputatious, contentious, edgy.
    • And though the annals of the period do not show us that there was less ale drawn, or less canary called for; men got dry with the heat of polemical discussion, and drunk with a text, not the fag end of a ballad, in their mouths; and people made a sort of morality of straight hair, long faces, and...1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 190

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Forms of polemicall

comparativemore polemicall
superlativemost polemicall

Questions about polemicall

What is polemicall the obsolete form of?
Polemicall is the obsolete form of polemical.

Words near polemicall in the dictionary

  1. polemarchs
  2. polembryony
  3. polemen
  4. polemic
  5. polemical
  6. polemicall
  7. polemically
  8. polemicals
  9. polemician
  10. polemicians
  11. polemicisation

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