a. That may be confuted. [ 1913 Webster ]

A conceit . . . confutable by daily experience. Sir T.Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. confutans, p. pr. of confutare. ] One who undertakes to confute. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. confutatio: cf. F. confutation. ] The act or process of confuting; refutation. “For the edification of some and the confutation of others.” Bp. Horne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Adapted or designed to confute. Bp. Warburton [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Confuted; p. pr. & vb. n. Confuting. ] [ L. confutare to chek (a boiling liquid), to repress, confute; con- + a root seen in futis a water vessel), prob. akin to fundere to pour: cf. F. confuter. See Fuse to melt. ] To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Satan stood . . . confuted and convinced
Of his weak arguing fallacious drift. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

No man's error can be confuted who doth not . . . grant some true principle that contradicts his error. Chillingworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

I confute a good profession with a bad conversation. Fuller.

Syn. -- To disprove; overthrow; sed aside; refute; oppugn. -- To Confute, Refute. Refute is literally to and decisive evidence; as, to refute a calumny, charge, etc. Confute is literally to check boiling, as when cold water is poured into hot, thus serving to allay, bring down, or neutralize completely. Hence, as applied to arguments (and the word is never applied, like refute, to charges), it denotes, to overwhelm by evidence which puts an end to the case and leaves an opponent nothing to say; to silence; as, “the atheist is confuted by the whole structure of things around him.” [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Confutation. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who confutes or disproves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the act of demonstrating that something is false; confutation.
Syn. -- falsification, falsifying, disproving, refuting. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Not confutable. -- In`con*fut"a*bly, adv. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]

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