Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To put down by argument; disprove; contradict; refute.
- To accuse; blame.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Archaic To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Scotland, transitive To defeat (someone) in an
argument . - verb Scotland, transitive To
refute ,rebut (a proposition, argument etc.).
Etymologies
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From French rédarguer, or its source Latin redarguere, from re- + arguere ‘argue’.
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Examples
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Holy Spirit amongst them; and consequently could not but reprove and redargue the world of sin, because they believed not in him.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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