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Webster 1913 Edition
Redargue
Red-ar′gue
(r?d-?r′g?)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Redargued
(-g?d)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Redarguing
.] [L.
redarguere
; pref. red-
, re-
re- + arguere
to accuse, charge with: cf. F. rédarguer
.] 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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Redargue
RED'ARGUE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2025
redargue
redargue
English
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.).
- 1771, Tobias Smollett, Humphry Clinker, Penguin Classics, 1985, p.27:
- The objections you mention, I humbly conceive, are such as may be redargued, if not entirely removed.
- 1771, Tobias Smollett, Humphry Clinker, Penguin Classics, 1985, p.27: