How To Use Oppugn In A Sentence
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Errors in religion were too tremendous to be tolerated for a moment, and the form (or rather anti-form) of worship handed down by her fathers, had cost too much blood and crime to be oppugned.
Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States
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Galenists oppugn Paracelsus, he brags on the other side, he did more famous cures by this means, than all the Galenists in Europe, and calls himself a monarch; Galen, Hippocrates, infants, illiterate, &c.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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By the plane Scriptures it was found, "That a lyvelie faith requyred a plane confessioun, when Christes trewth is oppugned; that not only ar thei gyltie that do evill, bot also thei that assent to evill.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
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This is Naturae bellum inferre, to oppugn nature, and to make a strong body weak.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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I doubt," said he, "whether those dictates are any clearer than those dogmas of 'natural religion' which have been so oppugned; and
The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic
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: bright, glistening olid: foul-smelling oppugnant: combative, antagonistic, or contrary recrement: waste matter, refuse, dross reborant
Club Troppo
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He declared that the citizens of Boston ‘were disaffected to the Laws of the Land’ and were in a state of ‘open Rebellion, Disobedience, and Disloyalty,’ and that the clergy were foremost in ‘oppugning the Authority of the Laws of the Land.’
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In such esteem it continued for many ages, till at length Mesue and some other Arabians began to reject and reprehend it, upon whose authority for many following lustres, it was much debased and quite out of request, held to be poison and no medicine; and is still oppugned to this day by [4225] Crato and some junior physicians.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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As for those places of Scripture which oppugn it, they will have spoken ad captum vulgi, and if rightly understood, and favourably interpreted, not at all against it; and as Otho Gasman, Astrol. cap.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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A skeptic can only _doubt_, never _oppugn_ the gospel.
The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, May, 1880
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But in promiscuous company no prudent man will oppugn the merits of a contemporary in his own supposed department; contenting himself with praising in his turn those whom he deems excellent.
Biographia Literaria
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One stone arouses 1000 billow, the tentative idea causes a mighty uproar very quickly in the whole nation, nod eulogist has, shake one's head the person that oppugn has.
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Scroderus (Andrea) who, all the world knows, set himself to oppugn
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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His objections were on a moral level with the best side of the religion that they oppugned.
Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)
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The doctrine of the satisfaction of Christ, his merit, and the reconciliation wrought thereby, understood aright by few, and of late oppugned by some, being so nearly related to the point of redemption, I desired also to have seen cleared, unfolded, vindicated, by some able pen.
The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
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Origen did mightily oppugn a new heresie which did springe vpp in his tyme/it was called the heresie of Helchesaites/and at lẽghth he did happily extinguishe it.
A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the sam
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Many of the remarks of this editor would appear to savour of prejudice had they come from the pen of one who denied the reality of the assumption, or oppugned the honour and worship now paid by members of the Church of Rome to the Virgin.
Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary
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The malison of her muliebrity allows niddering males opportunity for oppugnant vilipend.
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Wherever Roman doctrine _de fide_ is oppugned they must protest; but short of this they render absolute obedience to their ecclesiastical superiors in the church of England.
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859
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This paper aims to oppugn and criticize the above ideas.
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You may see my attitude as defensive and oppugnant, but I vaticinate further derogation of our incomparable tongue should such complots be permitted to unfold without denunciation.
Archive 2008-10-01
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Propositions, to be by you defended, or oppugned, or both, in the
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb
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Epist. et in deliciis, abi et oppugnationem relinque, quam flamma non extinguit; nam ab amore ipsa flamma sentit incendium: quae corporum penetratio, quae tyrannis haec?
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Either, therefore, he who oppugns incorporeal quality seems also to oppugn unqualified matter; or separating the one from the other, he mutually parts them both.
Essays and Miscellanies
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To oppugn the superstitious opinions of man, is to commence hostilities with his imagination -- to attack his fancy -- to be at war with his organization -- to enter the lists with his habits, which are of themselves sufficient to identify with his existence, the most absurd, the most unfounded ideas.
The System of Nature, Volume 2
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The malison of her muliebrity allows niddering males opportunity for oppugnant vilipend.
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Principio ut illo advenimus, ubi primum terram tetigimus, continuo Amphitruo delegit viros primorum principes; eos legat, Telobois iubet sententiam ut dicant suam; si sine vi et sine hello velint rapta et raptores tradere, si quae asportassent redderent, se exercitum extemplo domum reducturum, abituros agro Argivos, pacem atque otium dare illis; sin aliter sient animati neque dent quae petat, sese igitur summa vi virisque eorum oppidum oppugnassere.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
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You may see my attitude as defensive and oppugnant, but I vaticinate further derogation of our incomparable tongue should such complots be permitted to unfold without denunciation.
A malison on the poor of spirit.