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First published 1968 (SND Vol. VII).
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‡REDARGUE, v. Sc. usages, already obs. in Eng.

†1. To confute (someone) by argument.Sc. 1704 London Gaz. No. 4037. 5:
That we may redargue one another with Kindness and Civility.Sc. 1713 Rec. Conv. Burghs (1885) 90:
How easily may they be redargued by their own facts.

2. To refute, disprove (an argument, statement, presumption, etc.).Sc. 1713 Earls Crm. (Fraser 1876) II. 137:
The lie was loudly enough given for redarguing of the calumny by the judicial processes.Sc. 1777 Kames Elucidations 167:
Presumptions that can be redargued by a proof to the contrary.Sc. 1819 Scott H. Midlothian xii.:
The libel maun be redargued by the pannel proving her defences.Sc. 1847 Sir W. Hamilton Letter to De Morgan 4:
I may . . . redargue your claim and statements.Sc. 1885 Law Reports App. Cases X. 383:
This fact afforded a degree of real evidence which no parole testimony could redargue.