oppugned

In such esteem it continued for many ages, till at length Mesue and some other Arabians began to reject and reprehend it, upon whose authority for many following lustres, it was much debased and quite out of request, held to be poison and no medicine; and is still oppugned to this day by [4225] Crato and some junior physicians.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

The doctrine of the satisfaction of Christ, his merit, and the reconciliation wrought thereby, understood aright by few, and of late oppugned by some, being so nearly related to the point of redemption, I desired also to have seen cleared, unfolded, vindicated, by some able pen.

The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967

Errors in religion were too tremendous to be tolerated for a moment, and the form (or rather anti-form) of worship handed down by her fathers, had cost too much blood and crime to be oppugned.

Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States J. L. McConnel

By the plane Scriptures it was found, "That a lyvelie faith requyred a plane confessioun, when Christes trewth is oppugned; that not only ar thei gyltie that do evill, bot also thei that assent to evill."

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

Wherever Roman doctrine _de fide_ is oppugned they must protest; but short of this they render absolute obedience to their ecclesiastical superiors in the church of England.

The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 John Morley 1880

His objections were on a moral level with the best side of the religion that they oppugned.

Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) John Morley 1880

Many of the remarks of this editor would appear to savour of prejudice had they come from the pen of one who denied the reality of the assumption, or oppugned the honour and worship now paid by members of the Church of Rome to the Virgin.

Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary James Endell Tyler 1820

Propositions, to be by you defended, or oppugned, or both, in the

The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805

"I doubt," said he, "whether those dictates are any clearer than those dogmas of 'natural religion' which have been so oppugned; and

The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic Henry Rogers 1841