oppugn

1. (transitive, rare) To contradict or controvert; to oppose; to challenge or question the truth or validity of a given statement.Examples: "If nothing can oppugne love, And virtue invious ways can prove, What may not he confide to do That brings both love and virtue too?"; "It is for the same reason, that is, because 'tis all comprehended in Slawkenbergius, that I say nothing likewise of Scroderus (Andrea) who all the world knows, set himself to oppugn Prignitz with great violence, ---- proving it in his own way, first logically, and then by a series of stubborn facts"raretransitive