verb

• (intransitive) 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."
• (transitive) 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; […]”"
• (ambitransitive, archaic) 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."
• (transitive, archaic) 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."