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Dialectical

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to dialectic; (in philosophy) logically reasoned through the exchange of opposing ideas.

    "Sure, maybe. We know — have long known — that romanticism and fatalism are dialectical lovers."

  2. 2
    Synonym of dialectal (“of or pertaining to a dialect”). rare

    "For I, and no doubt You, have long obſerved, that thoſe Dialectical ſubtleties, that the Schoolmen too often employ about Phyſiological Myſteries, are vvont much more to declare the vvit of him that uſes them, then increaſe the knovvledge or remove the doubts of ſober lovers of truth."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to or employing dialectic wordnet

Etymology

From Latin dialecticus + -al. By surface analysis, dialectic + -al or dialect + -ical.

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