redargue
English
Etymology
From French rédarguer, or its source Latin redarguere, from re- + arguere (“argue”).
Pronunciation
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Audio (UK): (file)
Verb
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- (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:
References
- “redargue” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- “redargue”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) redargue