REBUT

v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

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

2.
v.

To contradict, meet, or oppose by argument, plea, or countervailing proof. Abbott.

3.
v.

To retire; to recoil. [Obs.] Spenser.

4.
v.

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. Blackstone.

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