† Controverser

Obs. Also -or. [f. CONTROVERSE v. + -ER¹.] One engaged in controversy; a controversialist.

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1620. Bp. Hall, Hon. Mar. Clergy, 29 (T.). Which place, boulted before to the bran by many controversers, [etc.].

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1625. Bp. Mountagu, App. Cæsar., ix. 91. Sine Dei gratia … saith the controversor.

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a. 1670. Hacket, Cent. Serm. (1675), 153. This opinion their Cardinal Controverser disavows.

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