Vindicate

Vindicate (vindicate)
v. t.	(?)
Vin"di*cate
[imp. ** p. p.* Vindicated (?)] p. pr. ** vb. n.* Vindicating.] [L. vindicatus, p. p. of vindicare to lay claim to, defend, avenge. See Vengeance.]

To lay claim to] to assert a right to; to claim.

[R.]

Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain?
The birds of heaven shall vindicate their grain. Pope.

To maintain or defend with success; to prove to be valid; to assert convincingly; to sustain against assault; as, to vindicate a right, claim, or title.

To support or maintain as true or correct, against denial, censure, or objections; to defend; to justify.

When the respondent denies any proposition, the opponent must directly vindicate . . . that proposition. I. Watts.

Laugh where we must, be candid where we can,
But vindicate the ways of God to man. Pope.

To maintain, as a law or a cause, by overthrowing enemies.

Milton.

To liberate; to set free; to deliver.

[Obs.]

I am confident he deserves much more
That vindicates his country from a tyrant
Than he that saves a citizen. Massinger.

To avenge; to punish; as, a war to vindicate or punish infidelity.

[Obs.] Bacon.

God is more powerful to exact subjection and to vindicate rebellion. Bp. Pearson.

Syn. -- To assert; maintain; claim. See Assert.

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