a. Obs. rare–0. [f. L. arguit- ppl. stem of argu-ĕre + -IVE, as if ad. L. *arguitīvus.] Characterized by argument. Hence † Arguitively adv., in a way that proceeds by argument.
c. 1665. J. Goodwin, Filled w. the Spirit (1867), 389. The new truths … are arguitively or consequentially contained or comprehended in them [the old ones].
