respuate

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respuate (third-person singular simple present respuates, present participle respuating, simple past and past participle respuated)

  1. (obsolete, rare) To refuse or reject.
    • 1663, William Clark (advocate), “Scaena Septima”, in William H. Logan, editor, Marciano; or, the Discovery. A Tragi-Comedy.[1], Edinburgh: Reprinted for Private Circulation, published 1871, page 38:
      [] for, although, I be quinquagenarius, or fifty years of age, yet what Virgin in Florence will respuat me when I abound in riches, []
    • 1824, Robert Charles Sands, “An Indian Eclogue.”, in The Atlantic Magazine[2], volume 1, New York: E. Bliss & E. White, page 257:
      [] but I must entreat the reader, if he be disposed to respuate these verses, not to conclude, that ours was no poet, []

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