redargue

verb

1. (transitive)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.”

2. (transitive)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.”

   “[T]he objections you mention, I humbly conceive, are ſuch as may be redargued, if not entirely removed— […]”

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.”

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.