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/rɪbˈət/ /ribˈət/ Listen

verb

Rebut v. t. (past & past part. rebutted; pres. part. rebutting)

To drive or beat back; to repulse. "Who him, rencount'ring fierce, as hawk in flight, Perforce rebutted back."

(Law) To contradict, meet, or oppose by argument, plea, or countervailing proof.

Rebut v. i.

To retire; to recoil. (Obs.)

(Law) To make, or put in, an answer, as to a plaintiff's surrejoinder. "The plaintiff may answer the rejoinder by a surrejoinder; on which the defendant may rebut."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... occurred in which some of the circumstances have come under my own notice, and when Europeans have committed wanton aggressions on the Aborigines, and have then made up a plausible story to account for what had taken place, but where, from obvious circumstances, it was quite impossible to disprove or rebut their tale, however improbable it might be. In the Port Phillip District in 1841, Mr. Chief Protector thus ...

— Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central • Edward John Eyre

... advocacy of the statement that {79} Christ's Sonship was that of adoption. Asserting the two Natures and the two Wills of the Lord, the Adoptianists regarded Christ as only in His divine nature truly the Son of God. Eager to assert the full Humanity and to rebut the Muhammadan charges of idolatry, the Spanish theologians taught that "one and the same Person was in two aspects a Son, in virtue of His relation to two different natures," and that "the Divine Son of God, begotten from all eternity of ...

— The Church and the Barbarians - Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 • William Holden Hutton

... us pass to more cheerful and consoling thoughts. If my connection with the preparation of the Address, from my having held, though unworthy, office in its Committee, enables and authorises me to rebut false charges against it, it has further bestowed upon me the privilege of personal contact with a body of men who justly represented the entire Episcopate, and would have represented it with equal advantage in any other period of the Church. I know not who selected them, nor do I ...

— The History of Freedom • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

... of fear—of a tame and cowardly spirit. I may rebut that imputation without vanity, by referring to the siege of Ctesiphon and the reduction of Egypt. The generous Zabdas will do me justice—nay, you all will—why am I apprehensive? Bear with me a moment more'—'Say on, say on, noble Otho,' ...

— Zenobia - or, The Fall of Palmyra • William Ware

... opens his willingness to be reconciled with one not his friend. That neighbor, seeing the company of coffee-drinkers watching him, may with an honest grace receive the cup, and let it seem not willingly; but an hard man will sometimes rebut the ...

— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers

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