Meaning

(intransitive) To argue without any aim; to dispute; to disagree..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To argue without any aim; to dispute; to disagree.
2. (transitive) To dispute (a point, fact, etc.), to argue about (something).
3. (ambitransitive, archaic) To reason (something) out, to fully consider, think through.
4. (transitive, archaic) To persuade (someone) through argument.
5. (transitive, archaic) To weary (someone) with arguing.
6. (transitive, archaic) To be evidence of (something).
7. (intransitive, archaic) To be of importance or relevance; to make a difference, to be of use.

Example Sentences

Mrs. Sudberry […] began to argufy with us, touching our going off the premises, and upon my soul, talked over the thing in such a moving manner, every now and then stopping to sob, that if it had not been doing an injury to Mr. Skain here, I could have found in my heart to have left um.

“But not in argufying over facts,” retorted Trunnell. “No, sink me, when I finds I’m argufying agin the world,—agin facts,—I tries to give in some and let the world get the best o’ the argument […]”

They discussed, you see, they didn’t argufy. What’s the difference? Well, when you start to argufy about something with other people, you don’t want to find out what the best idea is. You want to make them accept your idea.

“Why then you are his mistress, and a kept lady to all intents and purposes; so what signifies argufying the matter; […]”

“Well, it’s of no use argufying the pint,” said the butler, after a moment’s pause. “Here is Mr. Monroe’s address: perhaps when you have seen him, you will arrive at new inclusions.”

He […] passed judgment upon the social order without stint, even occasionally to argufying economics with his master, the Baron, as he brushed his breech.

‘Aren’t we two very foolish old quilts,’ he said, ‘to be argufying the past? […]’

[…] this Lubberly Whelp here says I talk like a Fool; and sure I have not used the Sea this Thirty Years, but I can Argufie any thing as proper as he can.

Word Forms

• argufies
• argufying
• argufied
• argify

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