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Stickle   Listen
verb
Stickle  v. i.  (past & past part. stickled; pres. part. stickling)  
1.
To separate combatants by intervening. (Obs.) "When he (the angel) sees half of the Christians killed, and the rest in a fair way of being routed, he stickles betwixt the remainder of God's host and the race of fiends."
2.
To contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds. "Fortune, as she 's wont, turned fickle, And for the foe began to stickle." "While for paltry punk they roar and stickle." "The obstinacy with which he stickles for the wrong."
3.
To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim.





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"Stickle" Quotes from Famous Books



... in a communication to the Academie, adds to the proofs that what is called the spontaneous generation of certain worms, is due to natural causes. For instance, a worm, which has no reproductive organs, is often found in the body of the stickle-back; this worm, however, is known to breed, but it does so only when the stickle-back happens to be eaten by a bird; the worm is then placed in the proper condition for development, 'for it is then only ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 452 - Volume 18, New Series, August 28, 1852 • Various
... not amount to anything, say a great many people; but the Lord Jesus declared, "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved," putting baptism and faith side by side. And an apostle declares, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you." I do not stickle for any particular mode of baptism, but I put great emphasis on the fact that you ought to be baptized. Yet no more emphasis than the Lord Jesus Christ, the Great Head of ...
— New Tabernacle Sermons • Thomas De Witt Talmage
... these Renaissance villains; we are amazed before their portraits. These men, who, in the frightful light of their own misdeeds, appear to us as complete demons or complete madmen, have yet much that is amiable and much that is sane; they stickle at no abominable lust, yet they are no bestial sybarites; they are brave, sober, frugal, enduring like any puritan; they are treacherous, rapacious, cruel, utterly indifferent to the sufferings of their enemies, yet they are gentle in manner, passionately fond ...
— Euphorion - Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the - Renaissance - Vol. I • Vernon Lee


Words linked to "Stickle" :   fence, argue, contend, debate


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