Redarguo, guis, gui, gûtum, pe. pro. gúere. Cic.To reprooue: to reprehende: to blame: to shewe the contrarie by reason or argument.Redargue me si mentior. Cice. Inconstantiam alicuius redarguere.Cic.To reprooue.Verba alicuius redarguere armis.Virg.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
rĕd-argŭo, ŭi, 3, v. a., to disprove, refute, confute, contradict (class.; syn.: refello, refuto). (a). With acc.: nosque ipsos redargui refellique patiamur, Cic. Tusc. 2, 2, 5; so, aliquem, id. Clu. 23, 62; Quint. 6, 3, 73 al.; opp. probare, Cic. de Or. 2, 72, 293; so, orationem (opp. convinci), id. Univ. 3: contraria, id. Part. 9, 33: crimen, Quint. 11, 1, 9: famosos libellos, Suet. Aug. 55. — Of abstr. subjects: improborum prosperitates redarguunt vim omnem deorum ac potestatem, Cic. N. D. 3, 36: inconstantiam tuam, id. Dom. 9, 21: advenit qui vestra dies muliebribus armis Verba redarguerit, will refute thy words, show them to be false, Verg. A. 11, 687.— (b). With object-clause: audi rationem falsam quidem, sed quam redarguere falsam esse tu non queas, Gell. 15, 9, 7.—(g). With gen., to convict of, prove guilty of: nec sane magnum aliquid efficiemus, quod illos ignorantiae redarguemus, Lact. 3, 1, 15; cf.: redarguti a lege quasi transgressores, Vulg. Jacob. 2, 9. — (d).Absol.: poterat autem inpune; quis enim redargueret?Cic. Fin. 2, 17, 55; Quint. 6, 3, 72.
