1. (a.) Of or pertaining to controversy; maintaining, or involving, controversy; controversial; disputative; as, a polemic discourse or essay; polemic theology.

2. (a.) Engaged in, or addicted to, polemics, or to controversy; disputations; as, a polemic writer.

3. (n.) One who writes in support of one opinion, doctrine, or system, in opposition to another; one skilled in polemics; a controversialist; a disputant.

4. (n.) A polemic argument or controversy.

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