Academic disputations

Disputations, Academic

Work cat.: Disputatio philosophica de anima quam in catholica et electorali Universitate Ingolstadiensi, praeside P. Casparo Adlmann , publicae disputationi proposuit Joannes Georgius Franciscus Iaecklin mense Julio, anno M.DC.LXXXII, 1682.
Descriptive cataloging of rare books, 1991: p. 17, rule 1G4 (academic disputation)
Online guide to ethics and moral philosophy, via the WWW, Sept. 2, 2004: article about Thomas Aquinas (academic disputations (something like a cross between formal debates and twentieth-century graduate seminars))
Encarta world Eng. dict. (disputation, def. 2: formal academic debate in defense of a thesis)
Am heritage dict. (disputation, def. 2: an academic exercise consisting of a formal debate or an oral defense of a thesis)
Webster's 3rd: p. 655 (disputation: a formal rhetorical exercise in which somebody propounds and defends a thesis or in which two parties reason in opposition to each other)
Libraries.psu.edu website, Nov. 24, 2006 (academic disputations; AACR2 21.27 the rule controlling academic disputations)