† redargutoryadj.
Obsolete.
Of or relating to refutation or reproof. Cf. redargutive adj.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > refutation, disproof > [adjective]
soilingc1449
redargutive1577
redargutory1634
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [adjective]
rebukeful1478
rebukousa1513
reprehensory1576
reprehensive1577
redargutory1634
correptory1659
1634 T. Carew Cœlum Britanicum 5 My privileges are an ubiquitary,..interrogatory, redargutory immunity over all the privie lodgings.
1650 Let. Cens. & Redargution Lieut.-Col. Lilburne 1 This censorious, redargutory address of mine.
1704 T. Hearne Ductor Historicus II. iii. 296 He was reproved by Boniface (an English Man) Bishop of Mentz: whose Epistle Redargutory had this happy Influence upon the King, that in Sign of Repentance, he priviledged the Church from all Tributes to himself.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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- grass table
- grass taffety
- grass tetany
- grass time
- grass track
- grass tree
- grass trimmer
- grass verge
- grass vetchling
- grass warbler
- grass waterway
- grass weed
- grass week
- grass widow
- grass widower
- grass widowhood
- grass work
- grass worker
- grass worm
- grass wrack
- grass yard
- grass-acre