altercation

noun
/ˌɔːltəˈkeɪʃn̩/UK/ˌɔltɚˈkeɪʃən/US/ˌɑltɚˈkeɪʃən/CA

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin altercātiō. Cognates * Catalan altercació * Italian altercazione * Occitan altercatio, altercassion * Portuguese altercação * Spanish altercación

  1. borrowed from altercātiō

Definitions

  1. An angry or heated dispute.

    • to get into an altercation over (something)
    • The shooting resulted from an altercation between two armed intoxicated men.
  2. An act of posing questions to, and obtaining answers from, a witness in a court of law.

  3. Angry or heated disputation.

    • VVee ſeldome find one peece of Scripture ſo preciſely and plainely expounded by another, as in this Prophecie, to haue aftervvards beene the Subiect of altercation.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at altercation. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at altercation. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at altercation

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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