confute

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As head of the Government I wish once and for all to confute this miserable lie.

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Now comes the "mediator" trying to keep peace between many power centers and "the Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute."

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Sometimes they illustrate his thesis; sometimes they confute it.

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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.

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Lupus, Bishop of Troyes, 40; sent to Britain to confute the Pelagians, xxiii, 32, 33, 34; churches dedicated to, 33; casts out evil spirits, 34.

From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, Cuthbert