Which preposition to use with disputations

with Occurrences 11%

As she anticipated, Roger refused to acknowledge himself guilty of an offence against the church or state; nor would he even yield one point of his religious or political opinions, during a long disputation with the celebrated pastor Hooker.

of Occurrences 9%

"Our party were greatly amused at the disputations of a learned society in Europe, in which they undertook to give a mathematical demonstration that they could not be thrown from a volcano of the earth, nor from the moon, but were suddenly formed in the atmosphere.

in Occurrences 6%

These elegant festivities were at their height, when there suddenly arose a considerable disputation in the hallway beyond, and before any one could inquire as to what was occurring, Captain Obadiah Belford came stumping into the room, swinging his ivory-headed cane, and with an expression of the most malicious triumph impressed upon his countenance.

between Occurrences 6%

The exercises for the degree, which, by the Statutes, took the old-fashioned shape of formal Latin disputations between Opponents and Respondents on given theses in the Divinity School, had by an arrangement introduced by Dr. Burton, with no authority from the Statutes, come to consist of two English essays on subjects chosen by the candidate and approved by the Divinity Professor.

on Occurrences 4%

These disputations on mathematics, in Latin, are now discontinued.

about Occurrences 4%

And if we can, why is there all this voluminous, uneasy, unquenchable disputation about War Aims?

at Occurrences 3%

The great Goliath of controversy in that day was Doctor Eck, who challenged the Saxon monk to a public disputation at Leipsic.

among Occurrences 2%

On one occasion he announced a disputation among any two of his hearers, offering to give an impartial hearing and judgment to both.

after Occurrences 1%

By now, however, the malcontents were for the most part silenced, and we hear little disputation after this as to the apportionment of wealth.

out Occurrences 1%

The Physician and Divine are often heard to dictate in private Companies with the same Authority which they exercise over their Patients and Disciples; while the Lawyer is putting Cases and raising Matter for Disputation out of every thing that occurs.

than Occurrences 1%

No matter for reason and sense, that go for no more in disputations than the justice of a cause does in war, which is understood but by few and commonly regarded by none.

Which preposition to use with  disputations