单词 | altercate |
释义 | altercate|ˈæltəkeɪt, ˈɔːl-| [f. L. altercāt- ppl. stem of altercā-ri to dispute with another, wrangle, f. alter another.] To dispute vehemently, warmly, or angrily; to contend in wordy warfare; to wrangle.
1530Palsgr. 421/1, I altercate, I moultiply langage or stryve in wordes. 1632Quarles Div. Fancies i. xl, Never fight Nor wrangle more, nor altercate agin. 1778B. Lincoln in Sparks Corr. Amer. Rev. (1853) II. 241 The hard necessity of altercating with the civil power. 1810Ann. Reg. 333/2 To altercate with the Landlady about some threepence or fourpence. 1837Lytton Athens II. 208 It becomes us not..to altercate on the localities of the battle. |

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