Usage examples (12)

• Scroderus (Andrea) who, all the world knows, set himself to oppugn
• This is Naturae bellum inferre, to oppugn nature, and to make a strong body weak.
• Origen did mightily oppugn a new heresie which did springe vpp in his tyme/it was called the heresie of Helchesaites/and at lẽghth he did happily extinguishe it.
• Galenists oppugn Paracelsus, he brags on the other side, he did more famous cures by this means, than all the Galenists in Europe, and calls himself a monarch; Galen,...