Meanings
present singular third person respuates · participle present respuating · participle past respuated · past respuated
- obsoleterareTo refuse or reject.
[…] but I must entreat the reader, if he be disposed to respuate these verses, not to conclude, that ours was no poet, […]
1824, Robert Charles Sands, “An Indian Eclogue.”, in The Atlantic Magazine, volume 1, New York: E. Bliss & E. White, page 2571 more example
[…] for, although, I be quinquagenarius, or fifty years of age, yet what Virgin in Florence will respuat me when I abound in riches, […]
1663, William Clark (advocate), “Scaena Septima”, in William H. Logan, editor, Marciano; or, the Discovery. A Tragi-Comedy., Edinburgh: Reprinted for Private Circulation, published 1871, page 38
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