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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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"Rebut" Quotes from Famous Books

... most miserable shame; his heart quailed at the mere notion of the sickening, disgraceful character of such a scene—he, the highly respected Mr. Dale, the good upright religious man, being accused by a little servant girl and having to rebut her accusations in ...

— The Devil's Garden • W. B. Maxwell

... him which he might with justice bring against others. For his ears are unused and strange to ill report, and he is so accustomed to hear himself praised that insult is more than he can bear. If, however, I seem to be anxious to rebut charges which are merely frivolous and foolish, the blame must be laid at the door of those, to whom such accusations, in spite of their triviality, can only bring disgrace. I am not to blame. Ridiculous as these charges may be, their refutation ...

— The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura • Lucius Apuleius

... groundless. It is perhaps impossible to satisfy him, because, in fact, he demands of reason what it is not the province of reason to afford. The notion is founded on other principles of the constitution which God has imparted to man, and these principles rebut all the sophistry of the presumptuous sciolist. Is it true, that this notion prevails universally among the human race? Let him answer to this. He must admit it;—let him then explain it, if he can. Reason, he will say, is incompetent to ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 13 • Robert Kerr

... one way in which Utilitarianism can even temporarily rebut the charge of fallacy, of which otherwise it must here stand convicted, and that is by renouncing all claim to be a new system of ethics, and not pretending to be more than a new system of nomenclature. And ...

— Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics - With Some of Their Applications • William Thomas Thornton

... himself at Rome. He brought forward witnesses who swore that they had seen him at the very time at Interamna, a town in Umbria, and a place which was distant at least two days' journey from Rome. To rebut this evidence Cicero was brought forward by the prosecution. As he stepped forward the partisans of the accused set up a howl of disapproval. But the jury paid him the high compliment of rising from their seats, and the uproar ceased. He deposed that Clodius had been at his house on the ...

— Roman life in the days of Cicero • Alfred J[ohn] Church

Words linked to "Rebut" : disprove, disown, rebutter, contradict, repudiate, confute, oppose, refute, controvert, renounce