Jupiter and all his satellites, for a happy etymology of an obscure word, or a better explication of a controverted line?
Some of the most extravagant systems were invented or controverted by men of acknowledged talent.
Tremaux, and has all his reasoning controvertedin favor of the new theory.
Not only if incorrect,” answered Tilling, “but even when they are going afterwards to be established, new hypotheses are always at first controverted by the old fogeys of science.
We merely add one more remark on the much-controverted subject of conversion.
We trust that we have the means of deciding this controverted subject.
He will not now persecute for the old controverted heads of Popery, with fire and faggot, as formerly, for refusing to worship our Lady, or the "blessed Sacrament of the Altar.
To clear the state, and vindicate the merit of the cause of their sufferings, as to the most material heads of it, that are most controverted at this time.
The theorycontroverted in the text, tacitly supposes all classes to be definite.
The advantage, in judging whether any controverted inference is legitimate, of referring to a parallel case, is universally acknowledged.
This controverted point will undergo a special examination when we come to treat particularly of the Logic of the Moral Sciences (Book vi.
Since examined and controvertedin the sixteenth chapter of An Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy.
Leprosy, an epidemical distemper of the Aegyptians; to which Horace probably alludes in the controverted line.
The controverted line is yet in the old quarto, not as the editors represent it, but thus: With checks as flatteries when they are seen abus'd.
This is a passage much controvertedamong the editors.
This is because all human language is ambiguous, and that of the Bible pre-eminently so; and this fact demonstrates the absolute impossibility of settling any controverted theological question by the Bible.
And as for the Bible, which used to be read every day by Christian professors, probably not one-half of them ever see inside of it once in six months, unless it is when they wish to settle some controverted question in theology.
Here it may be noted that the Hindoos, like the disciples of the Christian faith, have had various ecclesiastical councils to settle the canon of their Bible or some controverted doctrinal questions.
This matter is interestingly controverted by the Rev.
The existence of "Group Marriage" is a much-controverted point.
Questions of Guilt As it appears from all official publications without the facts being controverted by our own White Book, which, owing to its poverty and gaps, constitutes a grave self-accusation: 1.
If Miss Groves be unchaste, so was the renowned Cleopatra, whose marriage with Julius Cæsar is controverted to this day.
It is to the credit of the perspicacity of the memorialists that they discern the real nature of the Controverted Question of the age.
In the fourteenth century, the controverted question among us was, whether certain portions of the Supernaturalism of mediæval Christianity were well-founded.
The narrative of the trial of Zenger was widely scattered, editions being printed at New York, Boston, and London; while the principles which it established were sedulously controverted by the Tory faction.
The controverted places are Persia, Chaldea, Mesopotamia, and Arabia Felix.
The Grenville Act, and the subsequent measures for reducing the number of the judges on controverted elections, are a practical commentary on the truth of this remark.
We are told, that "no dictatorial opinion, no infallible or decisive judgment on any great controverted point, was ever delivered from that theological chair.
Both demands, he argued, controverted and combated that upward tendency which finds expression in the law of natural selection.
He has exerted no authority in support of doubtful and controverted opinions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "controverted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
