argufy

To argue without any aim; to dispute; to disagree.

Mrs. Sudberry […] began to argufy with us, touching our going off the premises, and upon my soul, talked over the thing in such a moving manner, every now and then stopping to sob, that if it had not been doing an injury to Mr. Skain here, I could have found in my heart to have left um.

“But not in argufying over facts,” retorted Trunnell. “No, sink me, when I finds I’m argufying agin the world,—agin facts,—I tries to give in some and let the world get the best o’ the argument […]”

To dispute (a point, fact, etc.), to argue about (something).

“Why then you are his mistress, and a kept lady to all intents and purposes; so what signifies argufying the matter; […]”

“Well, it’s of no use argufying the pint,” said the butler, after a moment’s pause. “Here is Mr. Monroe’s address: perhaps when you have seen him, you will arrive at new inclusions.”

To reason (something) out, to fully consider, think through.

[…] this Lubberly Whelp here says I talk like a Fool; and sure I have not used the Sea this Thirty Years, but I can Argufie any thing as proper as he can.

I have argufied the topic, and it wou’dn’t be pratty […]

To persuade (someone) through argument.

She was thinkin I might find things turned around and changed about so till I wouldn’t hardly know the country, but still she wouldn’t argufy me out of makin the trip.

To weary (someone) with arguing.

1895, Mary Noailles Murfree (as Charles Egbert Craddock), “The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain” in The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, p. 154, “Lord, how glad I’ll be to git rid o’ him!” Peters said in an undertone to Hite. “He hev mighty nigh argufied me ter death,—’bout sperits, an’ witches, an’ salvation, an’ law, an’ craps, an’ horse-flesh, an’ weather signs. […] ”