confute

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Accordingly, I perus’d the ſame, but was ſo far from being convinc’d of my having before entertain’d falſe Notions of the Matter, that I found myſelf oblig’d to Confute these Aſſertions in print.

From Slate • Nov. 20, 2018

Confute them then, Rachel—dolts that can't believe in self-devotion!

From Clever Woman of the Family by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Let them not fear to defend every Article; for I will bear them Harmless: I have Arguments good store, and can easily Confute, either Logically, Theologically, or Metaphysically, all those who dare Oppose me.

From A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727) by Macey, Samuel L.

Confute, kon-fūt′, v.t. to prove to be false: to refute: to put an end to.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

The beasts that have no speech nor argument Confute him, and the wild hog in the wood 650 That feels his longing, hurries straight thereto, And will not turn his head.

From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert