Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Eristic \E*ris"tic\, Eristical \E*ris"tic*al\, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ?
   to strive, wrangle, ? strife.]
   Controversial. [Archaic]

         A specimen of admirable special pleading in the court
         of eristic logic.                        --Coleridge.

Source : WordNet®

eristical
     adj : given to disputation for its own sake and often employing
           specious arguments [syn: {eristic}]