Word Meanings - REARGUMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An arguing over again, as of a motion made in court.
Related words: (words related to REARGUMENT)
- AGAINSTAND
To withstand. - MOTIONER
One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall. - MOTIONIST
A mover. - AGAINSAY
To gainsay. Wyclif. - ARGUE
1. To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason. I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will. Milton. 2. To contend in argument; to dispute; to reason; -- followed by with; as, - ARGUS
A fabulous being of antiquity, said to have had a hundred eyes, who has placed by Juno to guard Io. His eyes were transplanted to the peacock's tail. 2. One very vigilant; a guardian always watchful. - ARGUABLE
Capable of being argued; admitting of debate. - COURTESAN
A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. Lasciviously decked like a courtesan. Sir H. Wotton. (more info) courtier, It. cortigiano; or directly fr. It. cortigiana, or Sp. - COURT TENNIS
See TENNIS - COURT-CUPBOARD
A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Shak. - ARGUTELY
In a subtle; shrewdly. - COURTEPY
A short coat of coarse cloth. Full threadbare was his overeste courtepy. Chaucer. - AGAIN
again; on + geán, akin to Ger. gegewn against, Icel. gegn. Cf. 1. In return, back; as, bring us word again. 2. Another time; once more; anew. If a man die, shall he live again Job xiv. 14. 3. Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again, - COURTBRED
Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly. - COURTESANSHIP
Harlotry. - COURT-MARTIAL
A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law. - MOTION PICTURE
A moving picture. - COURTLIKE
After the manner of a court; elegant; polite; courtly. - MOTIONLESS
Without motion; being at rest. - COURTEOUSNESS
The quality of being courteous; politeness; courtesy. - EXCITO-MOTION
Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory. - THEREAGAIN
In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer. - NERVIMOTION
The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison. - REDARGUE
To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict. How shall I . . . suffer that God should redargue me at doomsday, and the angels reproach my lukewarmness Jer. Taylor. Now this objection to the immediate cognition of external objects has, - REARGUMENT
An arguing over again, as of a motion made in court. - IDEO-MOTION
An ideo-motor movement. - UNARGUED
1. Not argued or debated. 2. Not argued against; undisputed. Milton. 3. Not censured. B. Jonson. - OUTCOURT
An outer or exterior court. The skirts and outcourts of heaven. South.