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Webster 1913 Edition

Gainsay

Gainˊsay′

(? or ?; 277)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Gainsaid
(? or ?)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Gainsaying
.]
[OE.
geinseien
,
ageinseien
. See
Again
, and
Say
to utter.]
To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid.
I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to
gainsay
nor resist.
Luke xxi. 15.
The just gods
gainsay

That any drop thou borrow’dst from thy mother,
My sacred aunt, should by my mortal sword
Be drained.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition

Gainsay

GAINSA'Y

,
Verb.
T.
[Eng. against.] To contradict; to oppose in words; to deny or declare not to be true what another says; to controvert; to dispute; applied to persons, or to propositions, declarations or facts.
I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. Luke.21.

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