1. Of or pertaining to controversy; maintaining, or involving, controversy; controversial; disputative; as, a polemic discourse or essay; polemic theology.

2. Engaged in, or addicted to, polemics, or to controversy; disputations; as, a polemic writer.

Origin: Gr. Warlike, fr. War: cf. F. Polemique.

(01 Mar 1998)

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