Oppugnable

Quick meaning: Oppugnable is an adjective meaning (obsolete, rare) Disputable, contestable, refutable, capable of being oppugned.

Meaning

(obsolete, rare) Disputable, contestable, refutable, capable of being oppugned.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete, rare) Curable, amenable to medical treatment.
2. (obsolete, rare) Assailable, exposed to enemy's attack.

Example Sentences

Consult, on the other hand, the advocates for cold bathing, Floyer and Baynard, for instance, should implicit credit be given to their panegyricks, there are few diseases which are not oppugnable by immersion in cold water.

The Prince of Orators directs all Polemics to exert their Fire and Force on those Points of their Cause which are most solid and plausible, and to glide gently over, or altogether omit those which are weakest and most oppugnable.

A redoubt and battery at Hellgate were destined to prevent the passage of the enemy's ships to and fro in the Sound. Similar works were contemplated on the North River, and the oppugnable portions of the town were reformed and strengthened.

No dangerous diseases almost whatsoever, are more successfully oppugnable under discreet medical regimen [than are the fevers hitherto described] ; and when entrusted to nature, from the days of Hippocrates to the present time, they have ever been extremely fatal.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include impugnable, convincible, repugnable, batable, challengeable, contestable.

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