Procatalepsis is a forme of speech by which the Orator perceiving aforehand what might be objected against him, and hurt him, doth confute it before it be spoken […].
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Confute
//kənˈfjuːt//
Synonyms for "confute" (80 found)
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Bulgarian
2 entries- оборвам verb (to disprove, refute)
- опровергавам verb (to disprove, refute)
Italian
1 entries- confutare verb (to disprove, refute)
Russian
1 entries- опроверга́ть verb (to disprove, refute)
Turkish
2 entries- yalanlamak verb (to disprove, refute)
- çürütmek verb (to disprove, refute)
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bad books [...] to a discreet and judicious Reader serve in many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate.
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The conjecture of [Greenland] jointing on the east with Spitzberg, Nova-zembla, and Tartary, is pretty well, if not entirely, confuted by the new discoveries of the Dutch and Russians.
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We can look up something in a book and learn it perfectly well with no other motive than to confute reinforcement theory, or out of boredom, or idle curiosity.
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