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Quarrel [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. [Latin queror, to complain, that is, to cry out with a loud voice. Hence we see the primary sense is the same as brawl. The Latin queror coincides in elements with to call, to bawl, to shout, and gearan, a complaint. Heb.

2. A brawl; a petty fight or scuffle; from its noise and uproar.

3. A dispute; a contest.

4. On open seas their quarrels they debate.

5. A breach of friendship or concord; open variance between parties.

6. Cause of dispute.

7. The king's quarrel is honorable.

8. Something that gives a right to mischief, reprisal or action.

9. He thought he had a good quarrel to attack him. [Not used.]

10. Objection; ill will, or reason to complain; ground of objection or dispute.

11. Herodias had a quarrel against him. Mark 6:19 .

12. Something peevish, malicious, or disposed to make trouble. [Not used.]

13. An arrow with a square head. [Not used unless in poetry.]

14. A pane of glass; a square. [See Quarry and Square.]

Quarrel [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To dispute violently or with loud and angry words; to wrangle; to scold. How odious to see husband and wife quarrel!

2. To fight; to scuffle; to contend; to squabble; used of two persons or of a small number. It is never used of armies and navies in combat. Children and servants often quarrel about trifles. Tavern-haunters sometimes quarrel over their cups.

3. To fall into variance.

4. Our people quarrel with obedience.

5. To find fault; to cavil.

6. I will not quarrel with a slight mistake.

7. Men at enmity with their God, quarreling with his attributes - quarreling with the being that made them, and who is constantly doing them good.

8. To disagree; to be at variance; not to be in accordance in form or essence.

9. Some things arise of strange and quarr'ling kind, the forepart lion, and a snake behind.

Quarrel [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To quarrel with.

2. To compel by a quarrel; as, to quarrel a man out of his estate or rights.

Quarrel [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. An arrow for a crossbow; -- so named because it commonly had a square head.

2. Any small square or quadrangular member

3. A square of glass, esp. when set diagonally.

4. A small opening in window tracery, of which the cusps, etc., make the form nearly square.

5. A square or lozenge-shaped paving tile.

6. A glazier's diamond.

7. A four-sided cutting tool or chisel having a diamond-shaped end.

8. A breach of concord, amity, or obligation; a falling out; a difference; a disagreement; an antagonism in opinion, feeling, or conduct; esp., an angry dispute, contest, or strife; a brawl; an altercation; as, he had a quarrel with his father about expenses.

9. Ground of objection, dislike, difference, or hostility; cause of dispute or contest; occasion of altercation.

10. Earnest desire or longing.

11. One who quarrels or wrangles; one who is quarrelsome.

Quarrel [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To violate concord or agreement; to have a difference; to fall out; to be or become antagonistic.

2. To dispute angrily, or violently; to wrangle; to scold; to altercate; to contend; to fight.

3. To find fault; to cavil; as, to quarrel with one's lot.

Quarrel [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To quarrel with.

2. To compel by a quarrel; as, to quarrel a man out of his estate or rights.

Quarreled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Quarreler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who quarrels, wrangles or fights.

Quarrelet [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A little quarrel. See 1st Quarrel, 2.

Quarreling [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Contention; dispute in angry words; breach of concord; a caviling or finding fault; disagreement.

Quarreling [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Disputing with vehemence or loud angry words; scolding; wrangling; fighting; finding fault; disagreeing.

Quarreling [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Engaged in a quarrel; apt or disposed to quarrel; as, quarreling factions; a quarreling mood.

Quarreling [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Quarrelled Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Quarrelling Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Quarrellous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Quarrelsome.

Quarrelous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Apt or disposed to quarrel; petulant; easily provoked to enmity or contention. [Little used.]

Quarrelsome [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Apt to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; inclined to petty fighting; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric; petulant.

Quarrelsome [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric.

Quarrelsomely [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In a quarrelsome manner; with a quarrelsome temper; petulantly.

Quarrelsomeness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Disposition to engage in contention and brawls; petulance.

Discord Roget’s Thesaurus §713

N. disagreement, discord, disaccord, dissidence, dissonance, jar, clash, shock, jarring, jostling, screw loose, variance, difference, dissension, misunderstanding, cross purposes, odds, brouillerie, division, split, rupture, disruption, division in the camp, house divided against itself, disunion, breach, schism, feud, faction, quarrel, dispute, tiff, tracasserie, squabble, altercation, barney *, demel, snarl, spat, towrow, words, high words, wrangling, jangle, brabble, cross questions and crooked answers, snip-snap, family jars, polemics, litigation, strife, warfare, outbreak, open rupture, declaration of war, broil, brawl, row, racket, hubbub, rixation|, embroilment, embranglement, imbroglio, fracas, breach of the peace, piece of work, scrimmage, rumpus, breeze, squall, riot, disturbance, commotion, bear garden, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, subject of dispute, ground of quarrel, battle ground, disputed point, bone of contention, bone to pick, apple of discord, casus belli, question at issue, vexed question, vexata quaestio, brand of discord, troublous times, cat-and-dog life, contentiousness, enmity, hate, kilkenny cats, disputant, strange bedfellows

V. be discordant, disagree, come amiss, clash, jar, jostle, pull different ways, conflict, have no measures with, misunderstand one another, live like cat and dog, differ, dissent, have a bone to pick, have a crow to pluck with, fall out, quarrel, dispute, litigate, controvert, squabble, wrangle, jangle, brangle, bicker, nag, spar, have words, with, fall foul of, split, break with, break squares with, part company with, declare war, try conclusions, join issue, put in issue, pick a quarrel, fasten a quarrel on, sow dissension, stir up dissension, embroil, entangle, disunite, widen the breach, set at odds, set together by the ears, set against, pit against, get into hot water, fish in troubled waters, brawl, kick up a row, kick up a dust, turn the house out of window

Adj. discordant, disagreeing, out of tune, ajar, on bad terms, dissentient, unreconciled, unpacified, contentious, quarrelsome, unpacific, gladiatorial, controversial, polemic, disputatious, factious, litigious, litigant, pettifogging, at odds, at loggerheads, at daggers drawn, at variance, at issue, at cross purposes, at sixes and sevens, at feud, at high words, up in arms, together by the ears, in hot water, embroiled, torn, disunited

Phr. quot homines tot sententiae, no love lost between them, non nostrum tantas componere lites, mars gravior sub pace latet

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Genesis 26:20

And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac’s herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.

But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.

Genesis 26:21

And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.

Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.

Genesis 26:22

And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.

He moved on from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Rehoboth and said, “At last the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”

Genesis 45:24

So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.

Then Joseph sent his brothers on their way, and as they were leaving, he said to them, “Do not quarrel on the way!”

Exodus 17:7

And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?

He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”

Exodus 21:18

And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:

If men are quarreling and one strikes the other with a stone or a fist, and he does not die but is confined to bed,

Leviticus 26:25

And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

Numbers 20:3

And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!

The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!

Numbers 20:13

This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.

These were the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarreled with the LORD, and He showed His holiness among them.

2 Kings 5:7

And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.

When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and asked, “Am I God, killing and giving life, that this man expects me to cure a leper? Surely you can see that he is seeking a quarrel with me!”

Proverbs 17:14

The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.

To start a quarrel is to release a flood; so abandon the dispute before it breaks out.

Proverbs 18:18

The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.

Casting the lot ends quarrels and separates strong opponents.

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.

Proverbs 20:3

It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

It is honorable for a man to resolve a dispute, but any fool will quarrel.

Proverbs 21:9

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

Proverbs 22:10

Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

Drive out the mocker, and conflict will depart; even quarreling and insults will cease.

Proverbs 25:24

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.

Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

Proverbs 26:17

He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.

Like one who grabs a dog by the ears is a passerby who meddles in a quarrel not his own.

Proverbs 26:21

As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.

Like charcoal for embers and wood for fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.

Isaiah 45:9

Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker— one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?