Emily Dickinson Lexicon

AR-GUE, v.t.

1. To debate or discuss; to treat by reasoning; as, the counsel argued the cause before the supreme court; the cause was well argued.
2. To prove or evince; to manifest by inference or deduction; or to show reasons for; as, the order visible in the universe argues a divine cause.
3. To persuade by reasons; as, to argue a man into a different opinion.
4. Formerly, to accuse or charge with; a Latin sense, now obsolete; as, to argue one of profaneness. – Dryden.