ppl. a. Obs. [In form prec. vb. + -ED1, and at length so regarded: but F. controversé and Eng. controversed both appeared earlier than the respective verbs, and were app. direct adaptations of L. contrōversus, with the native ppl. endings -é, -ed. L. contrōvers-us appears to have been a compound of contrō (= contrā) + versus turned, with the sense (1) ‘turned against, or in a contrary direction,’ (2) ‘opposed, disputed, controverted’; in the latter sense it was practically the pa. pple. of an unused verb contrōvertĕre: see CONTROVERT.]
Made the subject of controversy; called in question; disputed, controverted.
c. 1575. Fulke, Confut. Doctr. Purgatory (1577), 441. That aunswereth one controuersie with an other, as much controuersed.
1581. N. Burne (title), The Disputation concerning the Controversit Headdis of Religion.
1585. Abp. Sandys, Serm. (1841), 416. In upright deciding of controversed causes.
1631. R. H., Arraignm. Whole Creature, x. § 3. 87. Who … thus decides the controversed case.
a. 1663. Sanderson, Serm. vii. (1681), 295. One single Controversed Conclusion.
