argufy

1. (intransitive) To argue without any aim; to dispute; to disagree.Examples: "Mrs. Sudberry […] began to argufy with us, touching our going off the premises, and upon my soul, talked over the thing in such a moving manner, every now and then stopping to sob, that if it had not been doing an injury to Mr. Skain here, I could have found in my heart to have left um."; "“But not in argufying over facts,” retorted Trunnell. “No, sink me, when I finds I’m argufying agin the world,—agin facts,—I tries to give in some and let the world get the best o’ the argument […]”"; "They discussed, you see, they didn’t argufy. What’s the difference? Well, when you start to argufy about something with other people, you don’t want to find out what the best idea is. You want to make them accept your idea."Synonyms: wranglecolloquialintransitive

2. (transitive) To dispute (a point, fact, etc.), to argue about (something).Examples: "“Why then you are his mistress, and a kept lady to all intents and purposes; so what signifies argufying the matter; […]”"; "“Well, it’s of no use argufying the pint,” said the butler, after a moment’s pause. “Here is Mr. Monroe’s address: perhaps when you have seen him, you will arrive at new inclusions.”"; "He […] passed judgment upon the social order without stint, even occasionally to argufying economics with his master, the Baron, as he brushed his breech."colloquialtransitive

3. (ambitransitive, archaic) To reason (something) out, to fully consider, think through.Examples: "[…] this Lubberly Whelp here says I talk like a Fool; and sure I have not used the Sea this Thirty Years, but I can Argufie any thing as proper as he can."; "I have argufied the topic, and it wou’dn’t be pratty […]"; "I then proceeded to argufy the question; and, after considerable discussion, both in the affirmative and negative, I came unanimously to the conclusion […]"ambitransitivearchaiccolloquial

4. (transitive, archaic) To persuade (someone) through argument.Examples: "She was thinkin I might find things turned around and changed about so till I wouldn’t hardly know the country, but still she wouldn’t argufy me out of makin the trip."archaiccolloquialtransitive

5. (transitive, archaic) To weary (someone) with arguing.Examples: "1895, Mary Noailles Murfree (as Charles Egbert Craddock), “The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain” in The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, p. 154, “Lord, how glad I’ll be to git rid o’ him!” Peters said in an undertone to Hite. “He hev mighty nigh argufied me ter death,—’bout sperits, an’ witches, an’ salvation, an’ law, an’ craps, an’ horse-flesh, an’ weather signs. […] ”"archaiccolloquialtransitive

6. (transitive, archaic) To be evidence of (something).Examples: "[S]he no ſooner ſet eyes on him than ſhe ſent me out; vvhich argufy’d no good, you'll ſay; […]"archaiccolloquialtransitive