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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Oppugned

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Oppugning

[OF.

oppugner

, L.

oppugnare

;

(see

) +

pugnare

to fight. See

To fight against; to attack; to be in conflict with; to oppose; to resist.

They said the manner of their impeachment they could not but conceive did

oppugn

the rights of Parliament.

Clarendon.

, v.t oppu'ne. [L. oppugno; ob and pugno, to fight, from pugnus, the fist.]

To attack; to oppose; to resist.

They said the manner of their impeachment they could not but conceive did oppugn the rights of parliament.

[It is never used in the literal sense, to fight.]