Redargue

/ɹɪˈdɑːɡjuː/ · verb

Meaning

To disprove or refute (someone) in an argument..

Definitions by Sense

1. To disprove or refute (someone) in an argument.
2. To rebut or refute (an argument, a proposition, etc.).
3. Often followed by for or of: to censure, to rebuke, to reprove (someone or something).
4. To argue (a case, proposition, etc.) against someone.
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To present a disproof or refutation of an argument, a person, etc.

Example Sentences

Dia[ph Silkworm]. Sir, Ile redargue you, / By diſputation. / Com[passe]. O let's heare this! / I long to heare a man diſpute in his ſhirt / Of valour, and his ſvvord dravvne in his hand.

Nathaniel Carpenter [i.e., Nathanael Carpenter] late Fellow of Exceter Colledge in Oxford, in the ſecond booke and ſeventh chapter of his learned Geographicall concluſions, thus fully redargues that forgerie.

[T]he objections you mention, I humbly conceive, are ſuch as may be redargued, if not entirely removed— […]

Wherefore, says he, the libel maun be redargued by the pannel proving her defences.

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• redargues
• redarguing
• redargued

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