redarguing

Verb

redargue (third-person singular simple present redargues, present participle redarguing, simple past and past participle redargued)

1. (transitive, obsolete except in Scots law) To disprove or refute (someone) in an argument.
   • Dia[ph Silkworm]. Sir, Ile redargue you, / By diſputation. / Com[passe]. O let's heare this! / I long to heare a man diſpute in his ſhirt / Of valour, and his ſvvord dravvne in his hand.1632 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “The Magnetick Lady: Or, Humors Reconcil’d. A Comedy […]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio)...

   Synonyms:

   counterargue

2. (transitive, obsolete except in Scots law) To rebut or refute (an argument, a proposition, etc.).
   • Nathaniel Carpenter [i.e., Nathanael Carpenter] late Fellow of Exceter Colledge in Oxford, in the ſecond booke and ſeventh chapter of his learned Geographicall concluſions, thus fully redargues that forgerie.1635, George Hakewill, “Touching Grammar, Rhetorique, Logicke, the Mathematiques, Philosophy, Architecture, the Arts of Painting and Navigation”, in An Apologie or Declaration of the Power and...
3. (obsolete, transitive) Often followed by for or of: to censure, to rebuke, to reprove (someone or something).
   • Wherefore, says he, the libel maun be redargued by the pannel proving her defences.[1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter XI, in Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.]...
4. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To argue (a case, proposition, etc.) against someone.
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To present a disproof or refutation of an argument, a person, etc.