confute
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Sometimes they illustrate his thesis; sometimes they confute it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now comes the "mediator" trying to keep peace between many power centers and "the Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute."
From Time Magazine Archive
As head of the Government I wish once and for all to confute this miserable lie.
From Time Magazine Archive
Delighted at this really "safe" issue, the Deputies rose to support or confute Dr. Pinard.
From Time Magazine Archive
Is it still necessary to confute Kautsky theoretically?
From Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) by Trotzky, Leon Davidovich
Arguably, though, Stone and Kuznick's contention is less readily confuted.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 15, 2013
Those who expressed skepticism when the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. raised the dividend rate on its common stock to $9 were confuted by the Company's earnings for 1923.
From Time Magazine Archive
And they have been often alleged to Flavian* himself, and never have been confuted, no not yet.
From Arguments Of Celsus, Porphyry, And The Emperor Julian, Against The Christians Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix by Taylor, Thomas
These maxims were confuted in the present case.
From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden
No. The story of stones being thrown at him is destitute of all proof but the guard's own assertion, and is confuted by a hundred eye witnesses.
From Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection by Reynolds, John N.
Macmillan," he wrote, "seemed in his very person to embody the national decay he supposed himself to be confuting.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was possible, however, to find evidence supporting or confuting his story.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden
Petrarch had himself formed the design of confuting the doctrines of Averroes; but he engaged Ludovico Marsili, an Augustine monk of Florence, to perform the task.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas
Its power, Added to beauty as its dower, Has oftentimes—there's no disputing— Added a charm, was passed confuting.
From Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) by Gay, John
His close manner of confuting the Arians in some of his letters, makes us regret the loss of many other works, which he wrote against them.
From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Butler, Alban
