REDARGUED

Verb

redargued

simple past tense and past participle of redargue

Anagrams

• reguarded

Source: Wiktionary


REDARGUE

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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