Definition of "oppugns" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of oppugn. (verb)

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• "Averroes oppugns all spirits and supreme powers; of late"
• "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."
• "For he oppugns himself, one while commanding that the science concerning God should be taken last and for a conclusion, as being therefore also called [Greek omitted], and again, another while saying that this is to be learned together with the very first."