a. rare. [f. prec. + -AL.] = CONTROVERSIAL.
1882–3. Schaff, Herzog’s Encycl. Rel. Knowl., I. 245. [Benoit] wrote several controversional tracts.
Hence Controversionalism, Controversionalist.
1820. Examiner, No. 660. 778/1. The … writings of controversionalists.
1852. Tait’s Mag., XIX. 509. A … civility which controversionalists do not invariably display.
1858. Sir A. Grant, in Oxford Ess., 86. Such a various controversionalism … could not fail to give rise to manifold inconsistencies.
