ETYMOLOGY
from Latin delitigare (to scold to exhaustion; to dispute wholeheartedly)
EXAMPLE
“…Were our author to change sides (which fanatics oftenest do), we should in all likelihood find him delitigating just as copiously and as loudly against his present idol; perhaps somewhat after this fashion – “He has debauched his visual taste by the use of stimulant colours…”
From: The Athenaeum: Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts
“Modern Painters: their Superiority in the Art of Landscape Painting”
By a Graduate of Oxford, February 10, 1844
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