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2801 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REFUTATION.2 (Noah Webster)
The act or process of refuting or disproving; the act of proving to be false or erroneous; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine or theory, by argument or countervailing proof.
2802 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REFUTE.2 (Noah Webster)
To disprove and overthrow by argument, evidence or countervailing proof; to prove to be false or erroneous; to confute. We say, to refute arguments, to refute testimony, to refute opinions or theories, to refute a disputant.
2803 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REGARD.20 (Noah Webster)
12. To respect; to have relation to. The argument does not regard the question.
2804 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RELATIVE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Having relation; respecting. The arguments may be good, but they are not relative to the subject.
2805 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RELEVANT.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Pertinent; applicable. The testimony is not relevant to the case. The argument is not relevant to the question. [This is the sense in which the word is now generally used.]
2806 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REMAIN.12 (Noah Webster)
7. To be left as not included or comprised. There remains one argument which has not been considered.
2807 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REMONSTRATE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To exhibit or present strong reasons against an act, measure of any course of proceedings; to expostulate. Men remonstrate by verbal argument, or by a written exposition of reasons.
2808 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REPEAT.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To do, make, attempt or utter again; to iterate; as, to repeat an action; to repeat an attempt or exertion; to repeat a word or discourse; to repeat a song; to repeat an argument.
2809 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REPEL.5 (Noah Webster)
2. To resist; to oppose; as, to repel an argument.
2810 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REPRESENT.9 (Noah Webster)
6. To show by arguments, reasoning or statement of facts. the memorial represents the situation of the petitioner. Represent to your son the danger of an idle life or profligate company.
2811 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REPRESENTATION.7 (Noah Webster)
6. Verbal description; statement of arguments or facts in narration, oratory, debate, petition, admonition, etc.; as the representation of a historian, of a witness or an advocate.
2812 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RESERVE.20 (Noah Webster)
In reserve, in store; in keeping for other or future use. He has large quantities of wheat in reserve. He has evidence or arguments in reserve.
2813 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RESIST.2 (Noah Webster)
… by argument or remonstrance.
2814 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RESPONDENT.5 (Noah Webster)
2. In the schools, one who maintains a thesis in reply, and whose province is to refute objections or overthrow arguments.
2815 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RESTRAIN.2 (Noah Webster)
… , by arguments or counsel; we restrain men and their passions; we restrain the elements; we attempt to restrain vice, but not always with success.
2816 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RESULT.4 (Noah Webster)
… facts, arguments, premises, conbination of circumstances, consultation or meditation. Evidence results from testimony, or from a variety of concurring …
2817 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RESUME.8 (Noah Webster)
4. To take up again after interruption; to begin again; as, to resume an argument or discourse. [This is now its most frequent use.]
2818 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RETAIN.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To hold or keep in possession; not to lose or part with or dismiss. The memory retains ideas which facts or arguments have suggested to the mind.
2819 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RETORT.4 (Noah Webster)
2. To return an argument, accusation, censure or incivility; as, to retort the charge of vanity.
2820 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RETORT.7 (Noah Webster)
RETORT, v.i. To return an argument or charge; to make a severe reply. He retorted upon his adversary with severity.