Definition of "altercating" [altercating]

• Present participle of altercate. (verb)

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• "Sometimes these altercating wills are viewed as modes of the possibility of existence: "It begins itself — but in so doing, it only makes a start towards possible realisation, which must in turn be followed by a start of real realisation""
• "The coffin-bearers, grumbling and altercating among themselves, laid the coffin on the hearse; the garrison soldiers lighted their torches, which at once began crackling and smoking; a stray old woman, who had joined herself on to the party, raised a wail; the deacons began to chant, the fine snow suddenly fell faster and whirled round like ‘white flies.’"
• "After a long altercating conversation, Mr. Yorke, unhappily then Lord Chancellor, departed, and I went to dinner."