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REDARGUE
Etymology
Verb
redargue (third-person singular simple present redargues, present participle redarguing, simple past and past participle redargued)
(Scotland, transitive) To defeat (someone) in an argument.
(Scotland, transitive) To refute, rebut (a proposition, argument etc.).
Anagrams
• reargued, reguarde
Source: Wiktionary
Red*ar"gue (rd*r"g), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Redargued (-gd); p. pr. & vb. n. Redarguing.] Etym: [L. redarguere; pref. red-, re- re- + arguere to accuse, charge with: cf. F. rédarguer.]
Definition: To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict. [Archaic] How shall I . . . suffer that God should redargue me at doomsday, and the angels reproach my lukewarmness Jer. Taylor. Now this objection to the immediate cognition of external objects has, as far as I know, been redargued in three different ways. Sir W. Hamilton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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