redargue

CIDE DICTIONARY

redargue, v. t. [L. redarguere; pref. red-, re- re- + arguere to accuse, charge with: cf. F. rédarguer.].

 To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict.  [1913 Webster]
"How shall I . . . suffer that God should redargue me at doomsday, and the angels reproach my lukewarmness?"  [1913 Webster]
"Now this objection to the immediate cognition of external objects has, as far as I know, been redargued in three different ways."  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

redargue

Confutation

VB confute, refute, disprove, parry, negative, controvert, rebut, confound, disconfirm, redargue, expose, show the fallacy of, defeat, demolish, break, overthrow, overturn scatter to the winds, explode, invalidate, silence, put to silence, reduce to silence, clinch an argument, clinch a question, give one a setdown, stop the mouth, shut up, have, have on the hip, not leave a leg to stand on, cut the ground from under one's feet, be confuted, fail, expose one's weak point, show one's weak point, counter evidence.