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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of redargue.

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Examples

  • The philosophies which are "redargued" are divided into three classes, the sophistical, of which the best example is Aristotle, who, according to Bacon, forces nature into his abstract schemata and thinks to explain by definitions; the empirical, which from few and limited experiments leaps at once to general conclusions; and the superstitious, which corrupts philosophy by the introduction of poetical and theological notions.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

  • Wherefore, says he, the libel maun be redargued by the panel proving her defences.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • Here an objection appeared to arise, which the ingenuity of the writer had anticipated. β€” β€œIt may be redargued,” saith he,

    Melmoth the Wanderer 2004

  • -- "It may be redargued," saith he, "by those who have more spleen than brain, that forasmuch as the Archbishop preacheth in English, he will not thereby much edify the Turkish folk, who do altogether hold in a vain gabble of their own."

    The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English Julian Hawthorne 1890

  • Against this species of evidence no alibi could be offered, because it was admitted, as we have said elsewhere, that the real persons of the accused were not there present; and everything rested upon the assumption that the afflicted persons were telling the truth, since their evidence could not be redargued.

    Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft 1885

  • Wherefore, says he, the libel maun be redargued by the panel proving her defences.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

  • Wherefore, says he, the libel maun be redargued by the panel proving her defences.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801

  • Wherefore, says he, the libel maun be redargued by the panel proving her defences.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • Against this species of evidence no _alibi_ could be offered, because it was admitted, as we have said elsewhere, that the real persons of the accused were not there present; and everything rested upon the assumption that the afflicted persons were telling the truth, since their evidence could not be redargued.

    Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Walter Scott 1801

  • _refuted; redargued_, the alternative word, was felt to be pedantic.

    The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822

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