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دَاحِضٌ

Root: دحض

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دَاحِضٌ [Slipping] has for a pl. دُحْضٌ: occur- ring in a trad., in the phrase دُحْضُ الأَقْدَامِ, meaning those having no firmness, or stability, nor determination, or resolution, in affairs.
2 حُجَّتُهُمْ دَاحِضَةٌ, in the Kur [xlii. 15], means Their argument, or plea, or allegation, is null, or void: or, as IDrd says, on the authority of AO; it means مَدْحُوضَةٌ [rebutted].
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