Dis′pu‐ta″tious (?), a. Inclined to dispute; apt to civil or controvert; characterized by dispute; as, a disputatious person or temper.
The Christian doctrine of a future life was no recommendation of the new religion to the wits and philosophers of that disputations period. Buckminster.
— Dis′pu‐ta″tious‐ly, adv. — Dis′pu‐ta″tious‐ness, n.