Redargued

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Redargue \Red*ar"gue\ (r?d*?r"g?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Redargued} (-g?d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Redarguing}.] [L.
     redarguere; pref. red-, re- re- + arguere to accuse, charge
     with: cf. F. r['e]darguer.]
     To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict.
     [Archaic]


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           How shall I . . . suffer that God should redargue me at
           doomsday, and the angels reproach my lukewarmness?
                                                    --Jer. Taylor.
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           Now this objection to the immediate cognition of
           external objects has, as far as I know, been redargued
           in three different ways.                 --Sir W.
                                                    Hamilton.
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