Sheathed their swords for lack of argument.
Shak.
6. (Astron.) The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends; as, the altitude is the argument of the refraction.
7. (Math.) The independent variable upon whose value that of a function depends. Brande & C.
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Ar"gu*ment (r"g*ment), v. i. [L. argumentari.] To make an argument; to argue. [Obs.] Gower.
Ar`gu*men"ta*ble (-men"t*b'l), a. [L. argumentabilis.] Admitting of argument. [R.] Chalmers.
Ar`gu*men"tal (&?;), a. [L. argumentalis.] Of, pertaining to, or containing, argument; argumentative.
Ar`gu*men*ta"tion (&?;), n. [L. argumentatio, from argumentari: cf. F. argumentation.] 1. The act of forming reasons, making inductions, drawing conclusions, and applying them to the case in discussion; the operation of inferring propositions, not known or admitted as true, from facts or principles known, admitted, or proved to be true.
Which manner of argumentation, how false and naught it is, . . . every man that hath with perceiveth.
Tyndale.