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Definition of Redargue
1. v. t. To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict.
Definition of Redargue
1. Verb. (context: Scotland transitive) To defeat (someone) in an argument. ¹
2. Verb. (context: Scotland transitive) To refute, rebut (a proposition, argument etc.). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Redargue
1. to disprove [v -GUED, -GUING, -GUES] - See also: disprove
Lexicographical Neighbors of Redargue
Literary usage of Redargue
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Albert Harkness (1886)
"Observe that in each of these examples the mood in the conclusion It entirely
Independent of the condition. Thus, redargue Is a command; moriar, ..."
2. A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Albert Harkness (1892)
"3 Observe that in each of these examp'es tho mood in the conclusion is entirely
independent of the condition. Thus, redargue is a command; moriar, a prayer, ..."
3. A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Albert Harkness (1881)
"Thus, redargue Is a command ; mortar, a prayer, Subjunctive of Desire ; quid
timeam, a deliberative question (484, V.) ; and velim, a Potential Subjunctive ..."
4. The Scots Law Times by Scotland Land Court (1893)
"In order to redargue it, however, he must establish the contrary, and therefore
the accused here had to prove that no milk solids were abstracted from the ..."
5. The Records of the Proceedings of the Justiciary Court, Edinburgh, 1661-1678 by Edinburgh (Scotland). Justiciary Court, William George Scott-Moncrieff, John W. Weston (1905)
"... by witnesses of greater number and more integrity, even as for this Cause
Assises of Error of a double number are allowed to redargue ordinary assises, ..."