surrebuttern.
/sʌrɪˈbʌtə/ Law.
In old common-law pleading: a plaintiff's reply to a defendant's rebutter. Also transferred: a further rejoinder.
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the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [noun] > an answer, response > to an answer > to the answer to an answer
triply1531
surrejoinder1542
surrebut1587
surrebutter1658
surrebuttal1889
1658 P. Osborne Pract. Exchequer Court 146 They must proceed with Rebutter, and sur-rebutter, untill every point materiall be put in perfect issue.
1770 S. Foote Lame Lover i. 34 Rejoinders, sur-rejoinders, rebutters, sur-rebutters, replications.
1867 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. (new ed.) Introd. p. xxxiv Mr. Bartlett (in his dictionary above cited) adds a surrebutter in a verse from Ford's ‘Broken Heart’.
1888 Morley in Daily News 17 Oct. 6/1 Controversy is seldom profitable after it gets down to the stage of sur-rebutter and sur-rejoinder.
1893 C. G. Leland Memoirs I. 295 Then came the attack on the impropriety of the whole thing, and finally Mr. Barnum's triumphant surrebutter.
Derivatives
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the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [noun] > an answer, response > to an answer > to the answer to an answer
triply1531
surrejoinder1542
surrebut1587
surrebutter1658
surrebuttal1889
1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. ix. i. 202 The parties plaintiffe & defendant..proceed..by plaint or declaration, barre or answer, replication, reioinder, and so by rebut, surrebut to issue and triall.
surreˈbut v. [compare rebut v.] intransitive to reply to a rebutter (also in extended use);transitive to repel as by a surrebutter.
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the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [verb (intransitive)] > in reply to charge, etc.
reply1453
surrejoin1594
rebutter1715
surrebut1726
the mind > attention and judgement > answer > answer [verb (transitive)] > send answer in return > in rebuttal
agiveOE
retort?1567
rejoin1601
surreply1650
counter-puffa1658
riposte1851
surrebut1866
1726 T. Madox Firma Burgi x. §21. 198 To this William Cokenage Surrebutteth. He saith, That [etc.].
1845 T. De Quincey On Wordsworth's Poetry in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 551/2 A smart reciprocation..of swearing and denying..butting, rebutting, and ‘surrebutting’.
1866 R. D. Blackmore Cradock Nowell iv To revive their efficacy, and so surrebut all let and hindrance.
1895 Q. Rev. July 264 The members of the majority..not unnaturally sur-rebut on this interpretation.
surreˈbuttal n. [compare rebuttal n.] = main sense.
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the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [noun] > an answer, response > to an answer > to the answer to an answer
triply1531
surrejoinder1542
surrebut1587
surrebutter1658
surrebuttal1889
1889 Times 25 Nov. 5/4 The State's rebuttal and surrebuttal of the defence.
1909 E. Banks Myst. Frances Farrington 311 There were witnesses to come in rebuttal, but he..could call witnesses in surrebuttal.
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