confute
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Healthy, vigorous and solvent, they confute the view that old age, as William Butler Yeats put it, is nothing but a tattered coat upon a stick.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now comes the "mediator" trying to keep peace between many power centers and "the Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute."
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Delighted at this really "safe" issue, the Deputies rose to support or confute Dr. Pinard.
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As head of the Government I wish once and for all to confute this miserable lie.
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The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute; The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute; This quatrain is translated from O. 77.
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam
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
It is true that in a scarce work we find it is recorded that the expression originated with Richard III., but this is easily confuted by the examples we have given.
From A Cursory History of Swearing by Julian Sharman
His conclusions have been disputed, if not confuted, by Jomard and others, and are probably erroneous.
From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh
The evidence against her was too strong to be confuted, and she pleaded guilty.
From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams
Macmillan," he wrote, "seemed in his very person to embody the national decay he supposed himself to be confuting.
From Time Magazine Archive
And he furthermore seems to imply that Fleischmann merits the reproach of men of science, for wasting his time in confuting "the antiquated and generally exaggerated views of writers like Haeckel."
From At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers by Edwin V. O'Harra
Christianity in later years did not triumph by confuting the objections raised against it on the part of culture.
From Joy in Service; Forgetting, and Pressing Onward; Until the Day Dawn by George Tybout Purves
I know he thinks that, but I had the honour of confuting him the other day with regard to the flagon and gloves.
From The King's Achievement by Robert Hugh Benson
However, it gave him so high an opinion of my abilities in the confuting way that he seriously proposed my being his colleague in a project he had of setting up a new sect.
From Franklin's Autobiography (Eclectic English Classics) by Benjamin Franklin
