Golden Bowl

Dictionary

  1. Home
  2. Dictionary
  3. POLEMIC

POLEMIC

POLEMICAL, a. [Gr. war.]

1. Controversial; disputative; intended to maintain an opinion or system in opposition to others; as a polemic treatise, discourse, essay or book; polemic divinity.

2. Engaged in supporting an opinion or system by controversy; as a polemic writer.

POLEMICn.

A disputant; a controvertist; one who writes in support of an opinion or system in opposition to another.