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▪ I. confute, v. (kənˈfjuːt) [16th c. ad. L. confūtā-re (or its F. ad. confuter, 16th c. in Littré) to check, repress, restrain, silence, refute, answer conclusively, f. con- intens. + a vb. stem -fūta-, occurring also in refūtāre, and prob. from same root as fundĕre (fud-) to pour out, overthrow, f...
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confute
confute/kənˈfju:t; kən`fjut/ v[Tn](fml 文) prove (a person or an argument) to be wrong 证明（某人或某论点）有误; 驳倒.
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Richard Tillesley
He also attempted to confute Selden's distinction between 'divine natural law' and 'ecclesiastical or positive law,' but showed little appreciation of
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Alexander Carson (author)
In the early part of his independent career, while studying the New Testament in order to confute the Baptists, he became a Baptist himself, and advocated
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confutative
confutative, a. (kənˈfjuːtətɪv) [f. L. confūtāt- ppl. stem of confūtāre to confute + -ive.] Adapted to confute; tending to confutation.1641 J. Jackson True Evang. T. i. 53 Right Application of Scripture..to a fivefold Use..Secondly, Elenchicall, or Confutative against error. 1742 Warburton Wks. (181...
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Henry Pickworth
Hearing that Francis Bugg proposed coming, at the instigation of the bishop, to confute the Quakers in Lincolnshire, Pickworth sent him a challenge to
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confutator
confutator (ˈkɒnfjuːteɪtə(r)) [a. L. confūtātor, agent-n. from confūtāre to confute.] = confuter.1854 H. Miller Footpr. Creat. viii. (1874) 153 His painstaking confutator. 1858 ― Rambl. Geol. 237 Their confutators..able to render them back but mere return glances.
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John Ashton (Jacobite)
Edward Fowler, bishop of Gloucester, who represented Ashton's paper as the manifesto of the Jacobite party, and tried to confute in detail his arguments
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confuter
confuter (kənˈfjuːtə(r)) [f. confute v. + -er1.] One that confutes.1589 Hay any Work A iiij, I wil proue..his confuter to be..stark mad. 1645 Milton Colast. Wks. 1738 I. 297 To be the confuter of so dangerous an Opinion. 1702 Howe Living Temple Wks. (1834) 59/2 That will oblige us afterwards..to con...
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Thomas Halyburton
He devoted his inaugural lecture to an attempt to confute the deistical views lately promulgated by Dr. Archibald Pitcairn in 1688. He died at St.
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confutable
confutable, a. (kənˈfjuːtəb(ə)l) [f. confute v. + -able: L. type *confūtābilis.] Capable of being confuted or disproved.1638 Chillingw. Relig. Prot. Pref. §30 What one Conclusion..is there in your Book, which is not by this one cleerly confutable? 1776 Campbell Philos. Rhet. (1801) I. i. ii. 60 A th...
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John Barnard (biographer)
This was published, according to the author, to correct the errors, supply the defects, and confute the calumnies of George Vernon, M.A., rector of Burton
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confutant
† 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.
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Woman Bitten by a Serpent
At the end of 1847 Clésinger also produced a Reclining Bacchante, slightly larger than Woman so as to confute criticisms of his technical skills with marble
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confuting
conˈfuting, vbl. n. The action of the vb. confute; confutation.1617 Hieron Wks. II. 147, I forbeare to spend ouer-much time in these kinds of confutings. 1728 R. Morris Ess. Anc. Archit. p. xx, They are unworthy the confuting.
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