(verb) : rĕd-argŭo, ŭi, 3
* To disprove, refute, confute, contradict (class.; syn.: refello, refuto).
* 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.— *
* With object-clause: audi rationem falsam quidem, sed quam redarguere falsam esse tu non queas,Gell. 15, 9, 7.
* 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.
* Absol.: poterat autem inpune; quis enim redargueret?Cic. Fin. 2, 17, 55; Quint. 6, 3, 72.

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