Usually means: Art of winning arguments skillfully.
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  1. eristic: Merriam-Webster
  2. eristic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. eristic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. eristic: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. eristic: Wordnik
  7. eristic: Wiktionary
  8. eristic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. eristic: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Eristic, eristic: Dictionary.com
  11. Eristic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Eristic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. eristic: Rhymezone
  14. Eristic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. eristic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. eristic: FreeDictionary.org
  17. eristic: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. eristic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. eristic: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. eristic: Legal dictionary

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  1. eristic: A Word A Day
  2. eristic: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (eristic)

adjective:  Provoking strife, controversy or discord.
noun:  One who makes specious arguments; one who is disputatious.
noun:  A type of dialogue or argument where the participants do not have any reasonable goal. The aim is to argue for the sake of conflict, and often to see who can yell the loudest.

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