the Week of Proper 8 / Ordinary 13
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Argument
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) A reason or reasons offered in proof, to induce belief, or convince the mind; reasoning expressed in words; as, an argument about, concerning, or regarding a proposition, for or in favor of it, or against it.
(2):
(n.) Proof; evidence.
(3):
(v. i.) To make an argument; to argue.
(4):
(n.) A process of reasoning, or a controversy made up of rational proofs; argumentation; discussion; disputation.
(5):
(n.) The subject matter of a discourse, writing, or artistic representation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem.
(6):
(n.) Matter for question; business in hand.
(7):
(n.) The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends; as, the altitude is the argument of the refraction.
(8):
(n.) The independent variable upon whose value that of a function depends.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Argument'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/a/argument.html. 1828.
