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.
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Delighted at this really "safe" issue, the Deputies rose to support or confute Dr. Pinard.
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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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As head of the Government I wish once and for all to confute this miserable lie.
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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 Cuthbert Bede
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.
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Pelagians, The, xxiii, xxv, 128, 129, 130, 368; in Britain, 21, 32, 39; at the conference of St. Albans, 34, 35; their teachers confuted and expelled by Germanus, 40, 41.
From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Cuthbert Bede
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
In that, I have confuted singly his proofs, or rather suspicions, resulting from the prosecution, to which his Honour attaches himself.
From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous
Macmillan," he wrote, "seemed in his very person to embody the national decay he supposed himself to be confuting.
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He was already confuting the French economists in 1808; and was writing upon the Bank-charter Act and the Ten Hours' Bill in 1844.
From The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill by Sir Leslie Stephen
Another apology for its length may also be offered:—its importance as confuting Schlegel's opinion, that the frequent mention of Genii is more consistent with Indian than with Arab notions.
From The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Anonymous
Still I determined to watch and note events with a view to confuting the superstition which foresaw good luck in the presence of this cat and her offspring.
From The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice by Eugene Field
Cowden Clarke confirms Hunt in stating that Keats’s hair was brown, and he assigns the same colour, or dark hazel, to his eyes: confuting the “auburn” and “blue” of which Mrs. Procter had spoken.
From Life of John Keats by William Michael Rossetti
