Rebut

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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

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

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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

2. 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.