of or pertaining to controversy; maintaining, or involving, controversy; controversial; disputative; as, a polemic discourse or essay; polemic theology.-engaged in, or addicted to, polemics, or to controversy; disputations; as, a polemic writer.-one who writes in support of one opinion, doctrine, or system, in opposition to another; one skilled in polemics; a controversialist; a disputant.-a polemic argument or controversy.