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Definition of Rearguing
1. reargue [v] - See also: reargue
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rearguing
Literary usage of Rearguing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1880)
"But Mr. Justice Peters delivered a dissenting opinion, rearguing for the full
validity and effect of the proclamation as of its date. ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1844)
"... the costs settled by rule of Court to be paid on allowing or overruling a plea
or demurrer, as also the 51. deposit on the rearguing a plea or demurrer, ..."
3. Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran/Contra Affair by Lee H. Hamilton, Daniel K. Inouye (1995)
"... that the President had made up his mind and it was useless to keep rearguing
the point.93 Weinberger probably could have insisted on a review anyway. ..."
4. A History of the Inquisition of Spain by Henry Charles Lea (1887)
"... revelling in the subtleties of dialectics, was perpetually rearguing doubtful
points, raising new questions, and introducing new refinements in matters ..."
5. The American Year Book by Simon Newton Dexter North, Francis Graham Wickware, Albert Bushnell Hart (1911)
"The case pending before the Supreme Court was argued, but on April 11th the court
called for a rearguing of this and the suit against the Tobacco Trust, ..."
6. James K. Polk, a Political Biography by Eugene Irving McCormac (1922)
"... being reprimanded for contending against the opinion of the judge, replied
that he "was not rearguing the case, but damning the decision. ..."
7. History of the United States of America Under the Constitution by James Schouler (1908)
"... would carry things their own way instead of committing new facts or rearguing
a doubtful point.3 The more the President relaxed his own influence, ..."
8. The Life of William H. Seward by Frederic Bancroft (1900)
"On February 18, 1859, he sent a special message to Congress repeating his
recommendations and rearguing the whole case. He mentioned the Panama riot of 1856 ..."
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