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UK
/ɛɹˈɪstɪk/
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NOUN
- the art of logical disputation (especially if specious)
- a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy
ADJECTIVE
- given to disputation for its own sake and often employing specious arguments
How To Use eristic In A Sentence
- During adolescence , boys and girls will take on secondary sexual characteristics.
- However, in the intestine, small amounts are converted to the more soluble mercuric salts, which are absorbed, expressing its characteristic toxic effects.
- Similarly, a firm may value worker characteristics that are unobservable to employment agencies but quite observable to family and friends.
- Conclusion Laparoscopic pyloromyotomy has characteristics of safety, minimal invasion and rapid recovery. What's more, it has satisfying cosmetic effect. It's worth routinely carrying out.
- So that even in their case the characteristic of the Mosaic dispensation was theopneustic, rather than theologic. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
- Kant defined "disinterestedness in aesthetic appreciation" as fundamental and important characteristics in "Critique of Judgment", which was also seen as the "quality" in beauty.
- The duke was characteristically droll about his political career.
- Effects of bagging on loquat fruit appearance, postharvest characteristics and quality were studied.
- The problem of environmental pollution roots in the characteristic of public goods and negative externality.
- In one appearance, after the first bout of bombing, he was wearing uncharacteristic horn-rimmed spectacles.
