Meaning of redargue | Babel Free

Definitions

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

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Examples

“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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