Middle English Dictionary Entry
argūer n.
Entry Info
| Forms | argūer n. |
| Etymology | From verb. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
One who presents arguments or engages in controversy; a critic.
Associated quotations
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)10.116 : Augustyne to suche argueres he telleth hem þis teme, Non plus sapere quam oportet.
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)192 : The seid arguers wolen sette to and fortofie her partie thus.
- (c1454) Pecock Fol.(Roy 17.D.9)6/32 : Whanne þe arguer intendiþ forto make, as to his semyng, vttirli proof.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)73.259 (v.2:p.53) : An heretik, a subtile arguer and a man of singuler eloquencie, disputid with blissid Petir and craftely and colourably had purposid his errourys.
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)199/16 : Þese arguers in her arguyng vndirstonden þe lawe takun in þe ije maner.