eristic vs rabid

eristic

adj
  • Provoking strife, controversy or discord. 

noun
  • One who makes specious arguments; one who is disputatious. 

  • A type of dialogue or argument where the participants do not have any reasonable goal. The aim is to argue for the sake of conflict, and often to see who can yell the loudest. 

rabid

adj
  • Furious; raging; extremely violent. 

  • Of or pertaining to rabies, or hydrophobia. 

  • Very extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous. 

  • Affected with rabies. 

noun
  • A human or animal infected with rabies. 

  • Someone who is fanatical in opinion. 

How often have the words eristic and rabid occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )