altercation
nounEtymology
Borrowed from Latin altercātiō. Cognates * Catalan altercació * Italian altercazione * Occitan altercatio, altercassion * Portuguese altercação * Spanish altercación
- borrowed from altercātiō
Definitions
An angry or heated dispute.
- to get into an altercation over (something)
- The shooting resulted from an altercation between two armed intoxicated men.
An act of posing questions to, and obtaining answers from, a witness in a court of law.
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
- neighboraltercate
- neighboraltercative
- neighboraltercator
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.
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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