Definition for OP-PUGN

OP-PUGN, v.t. [oppu'ne; L. oppugno; ob and pugno, to fight, from pugnus, the fist, Sp. puño, Fr. poing.]

To attack; to oppose; to resist. They said the manner of their impeachment they could not but conceive did oppugn the rights of parliament. Clarendon. [It is never used in the literal sense, to fight.]

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