rebutv.

Brit.

/rᵻˈbʌt/, U.S.

/rəˈbət/,

/riˈbət/

Forms:

α. Middle English rebout, Middle English reboute, Middle English rebowt.

β. Middle English rebut (northern), Middle English rebuyt (northern), 1500s–1600s rebute (rare); Scottish pre-1700 raboyt, pre-1700 rabuit, pre-1700 rabut, pre-1700 reboit, pre-1700 reboot, pre-1700 rebot, pre-1700 reboyte, pre-1700 rebuit, pre-1700 1800s rebute.

γ. late Middle English–1600s rebutte, 1500s– rebut, 1600s rebutt.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French rebuter, reboter.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman rebuter, etc., Anglo-Norman and Middle French reboter, rebouter to push back, drive back (late 12th cent. in Old French), to reject, rebuff (early 13th cent. or earlier), (in Law) to exclude, to bar from an action, remedy, benefit, avowry, or exception (1279 or earlier), (in Law) to separate a lord from his tenant (early 14th cent. or earlier), to hold (a thing) in contempt (1343), to obstruct (a person) (c1460), (in Law) to plead in answer to a surrejoinder (a1509) < re- re- prefix + bouter , etc. (see butt v.¹). Compare Old Occitan rebotar.The β. forms are predominantly Scots and English regional (northern); the length of the vowel in the second syllable is uncertain in the forms rabut , rebot : compare γ. forms, and also forms at rebut n.

†1. transitive. To rebuke or reproach (a person) violently. Obsolete (Scottish in later use).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > abuse [verb (transitive)]

vilea1300

rebutc1330

revilea1393

arunt1399

stainc1450

brawl1474

vituper1484

rebalk1501

to call (rarely to speak) (all) to naught1542

rattle1542

vituperate1542

bedaub1570

beray1576

bespurt1579

wring1581

misuse1583

caperclaw1589

abuse1592

rail1592

exagitate1593

to shoot atc1595

belabour1596

to scour one's mouth on1598

bespurtle1604

conviciate1604

scandala1616

delitigate1623

betongue1639

bespatter1644

rant1647

palt1648

opprobriatea1657

pelt1658

proscind1659

inveigh1670

clapperclaw1692

blackguard1767

philippize1804

drub1811

foul-mouth1822

bullyrag1823

target1837

barge1841

to light on ——1842

slang1844

villainize1857

slangwhang1880

slam-bang1888

vituperize1894

bad-mouth1941

slag1958

zing1962

to dump on (occasionally all over)1967

c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 3000 (MED) King & erls, wiþouten dout, Þer gun him anon rebout, Forto prouen his maner.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 29520 For-þi es fele rebuted [a1425 Galba reuyled] here þat forwit crist self es dere.

a1425 N. Homily Legendary (Harl. suppl.) in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 32 (MED) Gamaliell..rebuted him on ruid manere And blamed him ful bitterly.

c1450 (?a1400) Sege Melayne (1880) 743 (MED) Was neuer kynge þat werede a crown So foule rebuytede with Relygyon.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xi. l. 595 ‘Wallace,’ said Bruce, ‘rabut me now no mar’.

1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) 22669 (heading) How the Britis rebutit Conan for his gude counsall.

1561 in W. Mackay & H. C. Boyd Rec. Inverness (1911) I. Introd. p. lxix Gyf he beys fundyn flittand or rabuttan anie nychtbour.

1879 P. H. Waddell Isaiah intil Scottis xvii. 13 Bot Himsel, he sal sairly rebute them, an' syne they sal rowe far awa.

a. transitive. To repel, repulse, drive back (an enemy or an attack). Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > defence > holding out or making stand > hold [verb (transitive)] > repel

defendc1330

rebukec1380

rebut?a1425

rebatea1475

repel?a1475

repulse?a1475

rechasec1475

to set aside1522

push?1571

shoulder1581

to beat back1593

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > drive away > repel

recoil?c1225

to turn againc1330

to put awayc1350

rebukec1380

to put abacka1382

to put againa1382

again-puta1400

rebut?a1425

repeal?a1425

retroylc1425

rebatea1475

repel?a1475

repulse?a1475

to put backa1500

refel1548

revert1575

rembar1588

to beat back1593

rebeat1595

reject1603

repress1623

rambarrea1630

stave1631

refringe1692

slap-back1931

?a1425 (?a1350) T. Castleford Chron. (1940) 19573 (MED) Saxons in feld þai rebut, On þam fleande sued nan ensut.

1480 W. Caxton tr. Ovid Metamorphoses xiv. xiv Romulus & his peple..made them to retorne and flee abacke & rebowted them alle out of Rome.

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vii. 617 Fiften hundreth men & ma Wyth fewar war rebutit [1489 Adv. rebotyt] swa, That thai vith-drew thaim schamfully.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xi. viii. 38 Quha can that say..That I rebutit was or dung abak?

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 542 The Englishe Capteynes..rebutted and draue away the Frenchmen.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ii. sig. O3 But he..Their sharp assault right boldly did rebut.

c1600 A. Montgomerie Poems (2000) I. 26 Let not thy Lau be lichtleit..Bot tak revenge vhen Rebels thee reboots.

1692 W. Temple Mem. Christendom i. 74 The Prince found..the Dutch Soldiers so rebuted with the brave Defence from within, that nothing could have carried the Place at this Season.

1703 J. Elsum Art of Painting after Ital. Manner xx. 76 Some Ships striving to succour the distressed with great fury and intrepidity, rebutting and beating off the Enemy.

1814 Ld. Byron Let. 27 Feb. (1974) III. 246 Buonaparte is not yet beaten; but has rebutted Blucher, and repiqued S[ch]wartzenburg.

1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd iii. 106 Think alswa How to rebut and schue awa Thir damnit faes.

1923 C. M. Doughty Mansoul (rev. ed.) iv. 129 They soul-stained foes rebutted; which divine And human laws, trod down in gory dust.

1947 H. E. Read Innoc. Eye ii. vii. 200 The enemy came into touch with our fellows on the left, and here we rebutted him successfully.

b. transitive. To rebuff, obstruct, reject (a person).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (transitive)] > rebuff

rebut1488

reject1529

counterbuff1579

rebuffa1586

repel1593

slighta1616

to blow off1631

squab1812

respue1818

snout1916

stiff-arm1927

to knock back1930

to brush off1941

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xi. l. 138 Than he throuch pryd reboytyt all the layff.

c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. i. x. f. 8^v/2 The Scottis and Pichtis more insolent efter this vyctory than afore rebutit the Britonis, & denyit peace.

1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 399 The Eldest Sonne only shalbe rebutted, or barred, by the warrantie of the auncestour.

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 66 Our Atheist,..with nothing but humaine reasons will bee rebutted.

1625 H. Holland Cypres Garland sig. C3^v But if thy fellow-Canniballs rebut thee, Then with thee take the Plague thy cosin-fury.

1661 A. Cowley Vision Cromwell 63 The other design..from which he was rebuted by the universal outcry of the Divines.

1781 S. Douglas Mil. Diss. 17 Whilst it [sc. national military service] invites men to inlist, such as are capable of any degree of reason, are rebuted by the disgusting prospect, which the real circumstances of the service afford.

1848 Fraser's Mag. 37 510 This demand upon the exercise of the imagination will rebut the mere novel reader.

1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors II. ii. 30 Even aristocracy will cry blessings on the man who procures a commercial appointment for one of its younger sons offended and rebutted by the barrier of Examinations for the Civil Service.

1939 Times 29 Apr. 14/5 Responsible circles regard any attempt to rebut him [sc. Hitler] in detail as a mere waste of time.

2005 S. S. Prawer Between Two Worlds i. 6 He tried to buy back his old firm..from Ufa, but was rebutted.

c. transitive. To push or turn back (a thing, now usually something abstract); to reject, repel; to give a check to.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > drive away > repel > something impinging or advancing

repercuss?a1425

repulse?a1425

reverberatec1487

rebut1490

repel?1529

rebuff1697

wash1697

1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos x. 40 The lyghte of the daye rebouted and putte a backe the shadowe of the nyghte.

1562 A. Scott Poems (1896) i. 108 As waspis ressauis of þe same bot soure, So reprobatis Christis buke dois rebute.

1596 E. Spenser Fowre Hymnes 125 Their points rebutted backe againe Are duld.

1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. Bv^v A naked piller, Whose force rebutts the streame which runneth after.

1633 P. Fletcher Piscatorie Eclogs i. iii. 2 in Purple Island Rebutting Phœbus parching fervencie.

a1720 J. Sheffield Wks. (1753) II. 157 Rowing in the Gallies is nothing to the toil of popularity; but ambition is rebutted with nothing.

1814 R. Southey Roderick xvi. 66 [The stream] here, from the rock Rebutted, curls and eddies.

1830 R. Broun Memorabilia Curliana Mabenensia viii. 44 The latter metal..is easily distinguished to be the proper kind by emitting, when struck with a hammer, which it strongly rebuts, a ringing sound.

1859 I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 24 Fatalism..has been rebutted in its attempt to interfere with the energies of the day.

1909 J. Davidson Fleet Street & Other Poems 122 The terrier..seized the wedge, rebutted by the tide In shallow water.

1942 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 6 Mar. 13/1 ‘We are practically assured of a municipal hospital,’ he said yesterday, rebutting efforts in some local quarters to belittle Charleston's chances to realize the project.

2003 Western Mail (Nexis) 29 Jan. 1 She rebutted his advances but he was not perturbed and persisted with his unwelcome attention.

†3. intransitive. To draw back, retire, retreat. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > move backwards [verb (intransitive)] > retire, withdraw, or retreat

withdraw1297

recoilc1330

give place1382

arrear1399

to draw backa1400

resortc1425

adrawc1450

recedec1450

retraya1470

returna1470

rebut1481

wyke1481

umbedrawc1485

retreata1500

retract1535

retire1542

to give back1548

regress1552

to fall back?1567

peak1576

flinch1578

to fall offa1586

to draw off1602

to give ground1607

retrograde1613

to train off1796

to beat a retreat1861

to back off1938

1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. xxi. 111 As the sabboth day approcheth he [sc. a river] rebouteth and goth into therthe agayn.

a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 139 Company..makyth the honnoure of lordshupp rebutte in dyspite.

a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 246 In the Wyntyr..the grete colde of heyre makyth the naturall hette reboute and retourne to the stomake.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. ii. sig. B5 Themselues..Doe backe rebutte, and ech to other yealdeth land.

1624 F. Quarles Sions Elegies sig. C4 As the Pilot..striuing to scape The danger of deepe mouth'd Carybdis rape, Rebutts on Scylla.

1861 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 31 58 The village, built on a large mass of rock rebutting into valley, is lofty and of singular construction.

†4. transitive. To deprive (a person) of a thing by repulsing him or her. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 189 Syne [they] went abak reboytit of thair pray.

1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 466 He had far leuer sterue,..Of his honour or he rebutit be.

5. intransitive and transitive. Law. To bar (a grantor or an heir) with a rebutter (rebutter n. 1b). Now rare.

ΚΠ

1602 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law ii. 67 If the prouiso had beene that he should neyther vouche nor rebutte, the prouiso had beene void.

1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 365 The action of the heire by the Warrantie of his Ancestor..is called to Rebut or repell.

1714 G. Jacob Accomplish'd Conveyancer I. 57 If the Tenant be impleaded by the Warrantor he may rebut, (viz) shew forth the Warranty against him, and pray Judgement if he shall demand contrary his Warranty.

1741 T. Robinson Common Law of Kent i. vi. 123 Whether they [sc. heirs] shall be barred or rebutted by the Warranty of their Ancestor.

1825 H. Roscoe Treat. Law of Actions I. 261 An assignee cannot vouch on the implied warranty on partition, though he may rebut.

1873 Amer. Law Reg. 21 58 The warranty will rebut and bar the grantor and his heirs of a future right.

1910 Michigan Law Rev. 8 183 Baldwin is rebutted from the claim by his ancestor's warranty.

6. Chiefly Law.

a. transitive. To refute, disprove, reject (evidence, a charge, an argument, etc.); to provide a counter-argument to.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > refutation, disproof > refute, disprove [verb (transitive)] > by counter-charge

answerOE

returna1500

retort?1542

reject1553

recharge1566

contort?1567

invert1584

reband1588

recriminate1603

rebut1624

countercharge1626

occur1660

counterprove1679

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > pleading > maintain by argument in court [verb (transitive)] > rebut or plead in opposition

counterplead1530

retort1597

rebut1624

1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? Pref. When you bring those euident few words, This is my body, they vse to rebutt it with John 6. 63. The flesh profiteth nothing.

1771 F. Vesey Cases High Court Chancery 1 354 The real ground of the conveyance was to be inquired into to rebut the general charge of fraudulent conveyances.

1783 S. Douglas Rep. Court King's Bench 37 This rebuts every presumption that he meant to revoke it.

1812 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius (ed. 3) II. xviii. 681 The presumption of legitimacy..may be rebutted by circumstances inducing a contrary presumption.

1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. v. 70 This faculty..enabled him to rebut the minute and harassing charges brought against him.

a1862 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1873) III. v. 327 This antiquated notion is further rebutted by the fact that wages are always higher in summer than in winter.

1869 J. E. T. Rogers in A. Smith Inq. Wealth Nations (new ed.) I. Pref. 26 He rebuts their strange doctrine.

1908 G. K. Chesterton Man who was Thursday 50 I do not go to the Council to rebut that slander that calls us murderers; I go to earn it.

1956 R. Harrod Found. Inductive Logic p. vi Starting from his basic principles I have..rebutted his sceptical conclusions.

2004 S. West Portraiture ii. 57 Though convincingly rebutted, Panofksy's argument raises important issues about how a portrait might serve the function of a historical document.

b. intransitive. To reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder (cf. rebutter n. 1a) (now historical). Also more generally: to refute or disprove a charge, argument, etc.; to provide a counter-argument.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > pleading > plead [verb (intransitive)] > make other replies in pleading

rejoin1447

triply1504

duply1631

rebut1652

quintuply1663

sextuply1673

1652 E. Leach Down-fall Vnjust Lawyers 9 That party and parties..shall again Answer, Plead, Demur, put in Allegation, Reply, Rejoyn, Surrejoyn, Rebut, or Surrebut.

1704 W. Brown Remarks upon Acts Parl. 119 The Defendant may rebut to the Plaintiff's Surrejoinder, if there be Cause.

1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. xx. 310 The plaintiff may answer the rejoinder by a sur-rejoinder; upon which the defendant may rebut.

1799 C. Smith What is She? ii. ii. 21 Law must have its course. Zounds! hav'n't you had time enough? Hav'n't you appealed, reply'd, demurred, rebutted?

1807 E. S. Barrett Second Titan War 11 Hear him but plead, reply, rejoin, demur, Rebut and Surrebut.

1836 C. Norton Voice from Factories 19 With nice-drawn calculations at command, They prove—rebut—explain—and reason long.

1958 Univ. Pennsylvania Law Rev. 106 741 The defendant generally rebuts by showing that his bottling methods are safe.

1995 H. W. Brands Wages of Globalism (1997) iv. 114 Rusk rebutted by noting that a single repetition of a crisis like the Berlin confrontation of 1961 would quickly erase any savings.

†7. intransitive. Curling. To play a forceful random shot towards the end of a game. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > curling > curl [verb (intransitive)] > actions

roar1787

wick1811

outwick1830

port1831

rebut1831

to fill the ice1867

guard1878

slide1936

1831 [implied in: J. Wilson in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 30 971 Rebutting, is towards the end of the game, when the ice is blocked up, and the aspect of the game hopeless or desperate, to run the gauntlet through the same. (at rebutting n.)].

1890 J. Kerr Hist. Curling 404 To rebut..and to cannon.., were two favourite points by which the ancient curlers were wont to win distinction.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	rebut
释义	rebutn. Brit. /rᵻˈbʌt/, U.S. /rəˈbət/, /riˈbət/ Forms: α. late Middle English rebuyte (northern); Scottish pre-1700 rabut, pre-1700 rebuit, pre-1700 rebut, pre-1700 1700s–1800s rebute. β. 1500s–1600s 1800s– rebut; also Scottish pre-1700 rebutt. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: rebut v. Etymology: < rebut v. Compare Middle French, French rebut action of repelling (late 15th cent. in this sense).On the analysis of the spelling types see note at rebut v. Rebuke, reproach; repulse. Also: an instance of this; a rebuke, a rebuttal. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [noun] telingeOE chastiment?c1225 snapinga1300 snibbinga1300 reproving?1316 undernimminga1325 correctiona1340 threapening1340 admonishingc1350 reproofa1375 scourgingc1374 correptionc1380 repreyningc1390 reprehensiona1413 undertakingc1430 rebuke?a1439 admonition1440 correptingc1449 rebut?c1450 reprehendingc1450 redargution1483 reproval1493 increpation1502 prisec1540 tasking1543 check1588 improof1590 snubbing1600 threap1636 compellation1656 reprovement1675 reprimanding1698 rowing1812 lecturing1861 carpeting1888 eldering1912 woodshedding1940 stick1956 ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) 4531 (MED) Restyng place to our refuyte ȝit haue we nane bot beres rebuyte. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) x. l. 166 Allace, how may this be And do not harm? Our gret rabut haiff we. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xii. v. 166 Drevin abak Wyth a schamefull rebute and mekill lak. 1598 F. Rous Thule i. sig. I With whose rebut stands vp the horse on hight. c1600 A. Montgomerie Poems (2000) I. 85 My hairt hes biddin sik rebute. 1641 R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (1841) I. 371 Those three rebuts in end weell near efferat Aberdeene. a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 879 Ne'er break your heart for ae rebute. 1807 W. H. Ireland All Blocks! ii. 31 And, being always of a good thing tender, Wilt ne'er, unless 't is by rebut, surrender. 1828 Gentleman's Mag. July 51/2 We are sorry that Mr. Best has extorted from us these rebuts, by unpalatable remarks concerning us Protestants. 1879 P. H. Waddell Psalms frae Hebrew I. 17 Sen ye wad ne'er thole a rebute; an' my bidden ahint yo ye flang? 1972 Jrnl. Risk & Insurance 39 134/2 It is hardly a rebut to Pauly's conclusion that insurance does not necessarily lead to optimality. 2003 Sun Herald (Biloxi, Mississippi) (Nexis) 15 July a2 This is a rebut to the writer who wishes for athletics to be banished. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rebutv. Brit. /rᵻˈbʌt/, U.S. /rəˈbət/, /riˈbət/ Forms: α. Middle English rebout, Middle English reboute, Middle English rebowt. β. Middle English rebut (northern), Middle English rebuyt (northern), 1500s–1600s rebute (rare); Scottish pre-1700 raboyt, pre-1700 rabuit, pre-1700 rabut, pre-1700 reboit, pre-1700 reboot, pre-1700 rebot, pre-1700 reboyte, pre-1700 rebuit, pre-1700 1800s rebute. γ. late Middle English–1600s rebutte, 1500s– rebut, 1600s rebutt. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French rebuter, reboter. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman rebuter, etc., Anglo-Norman and Middle French reboter, rebouter to push back, drive back (late 12th cent. in Old French), to reject, rebuff (early 13th cent. or earlier), (in Law) to exclude, to bar from an action, remedy, benefit, avowry, or exception (1279 or earlier), (in Law) to separate a lord from his tenant (early 14th cent. or earlier), to hold (a thing) in contempt (1343), to obstruct (a person) (c1460), (in Law) to plead in answer to a surrejoinder (a1509) < re- re- prefix + bouter , etc. (see butt v.¹). Compare Old Occitan rebotar.The β. forms are predominantly Scots and English regional (northern); the length of the vowel in the second syllable is uncertain in the forms rabut , rebot : compare γ. forms, and also forms at rebut n. †1. transitive. To rebuke or reproach (a person) violently. Obsolete (Scottish in later use). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > abuse [verb (transitive)] vilea1300 rebutc1330 revilea1393 arunt1399 stainc1450 brawl1474 vituper1484 rebalk1501 to call (rarely to speak) (all) to naught1542 rattle1542 vituperate1542 bedaub1570 beray1576 bespurt1579 wring1581 misuse1583 caperclaw1589 abuse1592 rail1592 exagitate1593 to shoot atc1595 belabour1596 to scour one's mouth on1598 bespurtle1604 conviciate1604 scandala1616 delitigate1623 betongue1639 bespatter1644 rant1647 palt1648 opprobriatea1657 pelt1658 proscind1659 inveigh1670 clapperclaw1692 blackguard1767 philippize1804 drub1811 foul-mouth1822 bullyrag1823 target1837 barge1841 to light on ——1842 slang1844 villainize1857 slangwhang1880 slam-bang1888 vituperize1894 bad-mouth1941 slag1958 zing1962 to dump on (occasionally all over)1967 c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 3000 (MED) King & erls, wiþouten dout, Þer gun him anon rebout, Forto prouen his maner. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 29520 For-þi es fele rebuted [a1425 Galba reuyled] here þat forwit crist self es dere. a1425 N. Homily Legendary (Harl. suppl.) in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 32 (MED) Gamaliell..rebuted him on ruid manere And blamed him ful bitterly. c1450 (?a1400) Sege Melayne (1880) 743 (MED) Was neuer kynge þat werede a crown So foule rebuytede with Relygyon. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xi. l. 595 ‘Wallace,’ said Bruce, ‘rabut me now no mar’. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) 22669 (heading) How the Britis rebutit Conan for his gude counsall. 1561 in W. Mackay & H. C. Boyd Rec. Inverness (1911) I. Introd. p. lxix Gyf he beys fundyn flittand or rabuttan anie nychtbour. 1879 P. H. Waddell Isaiah intil Scottis xvii. 13 Bot Himsel, he sal sairly rebute them, an' syne they sal rowe far awa. 2. a. transitive. To repel, repulse, drive back (an enemy or an attack). Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > holding out or making stand > hold [verb (transitive)] > repel defendc1330 rebukec1380 rebut?a1425 rebatea1475 repel?a1475 repulse?a1475 rechasec1475 to set aside1522 push?1571 shoulder1581 to beat back1593 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > drive away > repel recoil?c1225 to turn againc1330 to put awayc1350 rebukec1380 to put abacka1382 to put againa1382 again-puta1400 rebut?a1425 repeal?a1425 retroylc1425 rebatea1475 repel?a1475 repulse?a1475 to put backa1500 refel1548 revert1575 rembar1588 to beat back1593 rebeat1595 reject1603 repress1623 rambarrea1630 stave1631 refringe1692 slap-back1931 ?a1425 (?a1350) T. Castleford Chron. (1940) 19573 (MED) Saxons in feld þai rebut, On þam fleande sued nan ensut. 1480 W. Caxton tr. Ovid Metamorphoses xiv. xiv Romulus & his peple..made them to retorne and flee abacke & rebowted them alle out of Rome. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vii. 617 Fiften hundreth men & ma Wyth fewar war rebutit [1489 Adv. rebotyt] swa, That thai vith-drew thaim schamfully. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xi. viii. 38 Quha can that say..That I rebutit was or dung abak? 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 542 The Englishe Capteynes..rebutted and draue away the Frenchmen. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ii. sig. O3 But he..Their sharp assault right boldly did rebut. c1600 A. Montgomerie Poems (2000) I. 26 Let not thy Lau be lichtleit..Bot tak revenge vhen Rebels thee reboots. 1692 W. Temple Mem. Christendom i. 74 The Prince found..the Dutch Soldiers so rebuted with the brave Defence from within, that nothing could have carried the Place at this Season. 1703 J. Elsum Art of Painting after Ital. Manner xx. 76 Some Ships striving to succour the distressed with great fury and intrepidity, rebutting and beating off the Enemy. 1814 Ld. Byron Let. 27 Feb. (1974) III. 246 Buonaparte is not yet beaten; but has rebutted Blucher, and repiqued S[ch]wartzenburg. 1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd iii. 106 Think alswa How to rebut and schue awa Thir damnit faes. 1923 C. M. Doughty Mansoul (rev. ed.) iv. 129 They soul-stained foes rebutted; which divine And human laws, trod down in gory dust. 1947 H. E. Read Innoc. Eye ii. vii. 200 The enemy came into touch with our fellows on the left, and here we rebutted him successfully. b. transitive. To rebuff, obstruct, reject (a person). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (transitive)] > rebuff rebut1488 reject1529 counterbuff1579 rebuffa1586 repel1593 slighta1616 to blow off1631 squab1812 respue1818 snout1916 stiff-arm1927 to knock back1930 to brush off1941 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xi. l. 138 Than he throuch pryd reboytyt all the layff. c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. i. x. f. 8^v/2 The Scottis and Pichtis more insolent efter this vyctory than afore rebutit the Britonis, & denyit peace. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 399 The Eldest Sonne only shalbe rebutted, or barred, by the warrantie of the auncestour. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 66 Our Atheist,..with nothing but humaine reasons will bee rebutted. 1625 H. Holland Cypres Garland sig. C3^v But if thy fellow-Canniballs rebut thee, Then with thee take the Plague thy cosin-fury. 1661 A. Cowley Vision Cromwell 63 The other design..from which he was rebuted by the universal outcry of the Divines. 1781 S. Douglas Mil. Diss. 17 Whilst it [sc. national military service] invites men to inlist, such as are capable of any degree of reason, are rebuted by the disgusting prospect, which the real circumstances of the service afford. 1848 Fraser's Mag. 37 510 This demand upon the exercise of the imagination will rebut the mere novel reader. 1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors II. ii. 30 Even aristocracy will cry blessings on the man who procures a commercial appointment for one of its younger sons offended and rebutted by the barrier of Examinations for the Civil Service. 1939 Times 29 Apr. 14/5 Responsible circles regard any attempt to rebut him [sc. Hitler] in detail as a mere waste of time. 2005 S. S. Prawer Between Two Worlds i. 6 He tried to buy back his old firm..from Ufa, but was rebutted. c. transitive. To push or turn back (a thing, now usually something abstract); to reject, repel; to give a check to. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > drive away > repel > something impinging or advancing repercuss?a1425 repulse?a1425 reverberatec1487 rebut1490 repel?1529 rebuff1697 wash1697 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos x. 40 The lyghte of the daye rebouted and putte a backe the shadowe of the nyghte. 1562 A. Scott Poems (1896) i. 108 As waspis ressauis of þe same bot soure, So reprobatis Christis buke dois rebute. 1596 E. Spenser Fowre Hymnes 125 Their points rebutted backe againe Are duld. 1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. Bv^v A naked piller, Whose force rebutts the streame which runneth after. 1633 P. Fletcher Piscatorie Eclogs i. iii. 2 in Purple Island Rebutting Phœbus parching fervencie. a1720 J. Sheffield Wks. (1753) II. 157 Rowing in the Gallies is nothing to the toil of popularity; but ambition is rebutted with nothing. 1814 R. Southey Roderick xvi. 66 [The stream] here, from the rock Rebutted, curls and eddies. 1830 R. Broun Memorabilia Curliana Mabenensia viii. 44 The latter metal..is easily distinguished to be the proper kind by emitting, when struck with a hammer, which it strongly rebuts, a ringing sound. 1859 I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 24 Fatalism..has been rebutted in its attempt to interfere with the energies of the day. 1909 J. Davidson Fleet Street & Other Poems 122 The terrier..seized the wedge, rebutted by the tide In shallow water. 1942 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 6 Mar. 13/1 ‘We are practically assured of a municipal hospital,’ he said yesterday, rebutting efforts in some local quarters to belittle Charleston's chances to realize the project. 2003 Western Mail (Nexis) 29 Jan. 1 She rebutted his advances but he was not perturbed and persisted with his unwelcome attention. †3. intransitive. To draw back, retire, retreat. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > move backwards [verb (intransitive)] > retire, withdraw, or retreat withdraw1297 recoilc1330 give place1382 arrear1399 to draw backa1400 resortc1425 adrawc1450 recedec1450 retraya1470 returna1470 rebut1481 wyke1481 umbedrawc1485 retreata1500 retract1535 retire1542 to give back1548 regress1552 to fall back?1567 peak1576 flinch1578 to fall offa1586 to draw off1602 to give ground1607 retrograde1613 to train off1796 to beat a retreat1861 to back off1938 1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. xxi. 111 As the sabboth day approcheth he [sc. a river] rebouteth and goth into therthe agayn. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 139 Company..makyth the honnoure of lordshupp rebutte in dyspite. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 246 In the Wyntyr..the grete colde of heyre makyth the naturall hette reboute and retourne to the stomake. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. ii. sig. B5 Themselues..Doe backe rebutte, and ech to other yealdeth land. 1624 F. Quarles Sions Elegies sig. C4 As the Pilot..striuing to scape The danger of deepe mouth'd Carybdis rape, Rebutts on Scylla. 1861 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 31 58 The village, built on a large mass of rock rebutting into valley, is lofty and of singular construction. †4. transitive. To deprive (a person) of a thing by repulsing him or her. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 189 Syne [they] went abak reboytit of thair pray. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 466 He had far leuer sterue,..Of his honour or he rebutit be. 5. intransitive and transitive. Law. To bar (a grantor or an heir) with a rebutter (rebutter n. 1b). Now rare. ΚΠ 1602 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law ii. 67 If the prouiso had beene that he should neyther vouche nor rebutte, the prouiso had beene void. 1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 365 The action of the heire by the Warrantie of his Ancestor..is called to Rebut or repell. 1714 G. Jacob Accomplish'd Conveyancer I. 57 If the Tenant be impleaded by the Warrantor he may rebut, (viz) shew forth the Warranty against him, and pray Judgement if he shall demand contrary his Warranty. 1741 T. Robinson Common Law of Kent i. vi. 123 Whether they [sc. heirs] shall be barred or rebutted by the Warranty of their Ancestor. 1825 H. Roscoe Treat. Law of Actions I. 261 An assignee cannot vouch on the implied warranty on partition, though he may rebut. 1873 Amer. Law Reg. 21 58 The warranty will rebut and bar the grantor and his heirs of a future right. 1910 Michigan Law Rev. 8 183 Baldwin is rebutted from the claim by his ancestor's warranty. 6. Chiefly Law. a. transitive. To refute, disprove, reject (evidence, a charge, an argument, etc.); to provide a counter-argument to. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > refutation, disproof > refute, disprove [verb (transitive)] > by counter-charge answerOE returna1500 retort?1542 reject1553 recharge1566 contort?1567 invert1584 reband1588 recriminate1603 rebut1624 countercharge1626 occur1660 counterprove1679 society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > pleading > maintain by argument in court [verb (transitive)] > rebut or plead in opposition counterplead1530 retort1597 rebut1624 1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? Pref. When you bring those euident few words, This is my body, they vse to rebutt it with John 6. 63. The flesh profiteth nothing. 1771 F. Vesey Cases High Court Chancery 1 354 The real ground of the conveyance was to be inquired into to rebut the general charge of fraudulent conveyances. 1783 S. Douglas Rep. Court King's Bench 37 This rebuts every presumption that he meant to revoke it. 1812 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius (ed. 3) II. xviii. 681 The presumption of legitimacy..may be rebutted by circumstances inducing a contrary presumption. 1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. v. 70 This faculty..enabled him to rebut the minute and harassing charges brought against him. a1862 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1873) III. v. 327 This antiquated notion is further rebutted by the fact that wages are always higher in summer than in winter. 1869 J. E. T. Rogers in A. Smith Inq. Wealth Nations (new ed.) I. Pref. 26 He rebuts their strange doctrine. 1908 G. K. Chesterton Man who was Thursday 50 I do not go to the Council to rebut that slander that calls us murderers; I go to earn it. 1956 R. Harrod Found. Inductive Logic p. vi Starting from his basic principles I have..rebutted his sceptical conclusions. 2004 S. West Portraiture ii. 57 Though convincingly rebutted, Panofksy's argument raises important issues about how a portrait might serve the function of a historical document. b. intransitive. To reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder (cf. rebutter n. 1a) (now historical). Also more generally: to refute or disprove a charge, argument, etc.; to provide a counter-argument. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > pleading > plead [verb (intransitive)] > make other replies in pleading rejoin1447 triply1504 duply1631 rebut1652 quintuply1663 sextuply1673 1652 E. Leach Down-fall Vnjust Lawyers 9 That party and parties..shall again Answer, Plead, Demur, put in Allegation, Reply, Rejoyn, Surrejoyn, Rebut, or Surrebut. 1704 W. Brown Remarks upon Acts Parl. 119 The Defendant may rebut to the Plaintiff's Surrejoinder, if there be Cause. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. xx. 310 The plaintiff may answer the rejoinder by a sur-rejoinder; upon which the defendant may rebut. 1799 C. Smith What is She? ii. ii. 21 Law must have its course. Zounds! hav'n't you had time enough? Hav'n't you appealed, reply'd, demurred, rebutted? 1807 E. S. Barrett Second Titan War 11 Hear him but plead, reply, rejoin, demur, Rebut and Surrebut. 1836 C. Norton Voice from Factories 19 With nice-drawn calculations at command, They prove—rebut—explain—and reason long. 1958 Univ. Pennsylvania Law Rev. 106 741 The defendant generally rebuts by showing that his bottling methods are safe. 1995 H. W. Brands Wages of Globalism (1997) iv. 114 Rusk rebutted by noting that a single repetition of a crisis like the Berlin confrontation of 1961 would quickly erase any savings. †7. intransitive. Curling. To play a forceful random shot towards the end of a game. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > curling > curl [verb (intransitive)] > actions roar1787 wick1811 outwick1830 port1831 rebut1831 to fill the ice1867 guard1878 slide1936 1831 [implied in: J. Wilson in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 30 971 Rebutting, is towards the end of the game, when the ice is blocked up, and the aspect of the game hopeless or desperate, to run the gauntlet through the same. (at rebutting n.)]. 1890 J. Kerr Hist. Curling 404 To rebut..and to cannon.., were two favourite points by which the ancient curlers were wont to win distinction. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.?c1450v.c1330
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