† conˈfutant Obs.
[ad. L. confūtānt-em, pr. pple. of confūtāre to confute: see -ant.]
One who confutes; a confuter.
| 1642 Milton Apol. Smect. i, That the confutant may also know. Ibid. vi, Which hath brought this confutant into his pedantic kingdom of Cornucopia. |