Meanings of religious disputation in English

The investiture was celebrated by prayer, singing of psalms, and religious disputation.

A Babel of religious disputation that never dies down.

Dr. O'Leary, though with great talents for a controversialist, always sedulously avoided the angry theme of religious disputation.

The conversion methods of the Dominican monk were of a most insinuating kind-heusually began with a public religious disputation.

If there was one thing the Ascendancy believed it had learned from the past, it was that religious disputation led to bloodshed.

She professed herself anxious for a national council to settle the religious differences, and failing this she insisted upon a religious disputation at Poissy.

The religious disputations in Holland had given a great impulse to talent.

Erasmus laughed at all religious disputations and called them mazes that led to cloudland.

This was a lecture-hall, or rather a hall for the religious disputations customary among the Cistercians.

I could not forbear laughing when I saw these books; they instantly brought to my mind the skippers of Padron and their religious disputations.