A disputative galley-puller could have triumphed over him morally; a child physically.

At length the engineer was goaded to anger, he became disputative, indignant, loquacious.

Then he had remembered Mrs James, and their disputative, unexpectedly intimate conversation in her father's office.

"Me too," said Jerik, wanting to get into the game, now that High Priest Harshket seemed more disputative than angry.