Confute Definition

kən-fyo͝ot
confuted, confutes, confuting
verb
confuted, confutes, confuting
To prove (a person, statement, etc.) to be in error or false; overcome by argument or proof.
Webster's New World
To make useless.
Webster's New World
To confound.
American Heritage

(now rare) To show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute.

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Origin of Confute

  • From Middle French confuter, from Latin confūtāre.

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin cōnfūtāre bhau- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Confute Sentence Examples

  • Both of these confessions were drawn up to confute the teaching of a remarkable man who had been patriarch of Constantinople, Cyril Lucar.

  • Schliemann was on several occasions in England, in 1883 to receive honours from the great universities, and in 1886 to confute, at a special gathering of the Hellenic Society, the assertion of Stillman and Penrose that the Tirynthian palace was posterior to the Christian era.

  • Albertus Magnus and St Thomas devote special treatises to an examination of the Averroist theory of the unity of intellect, which they labour to confute in order to establish the orthodoxy of Aristotle.

  • And now, for the better setting forth of his doctrines, to silence pedants, and confute malignant misinterpretation, he published a collection of his writings.

  • He was one of the disputants selected to confute the Romanists at the conference of Westminster after Easter 1J59; he was select preacher at St Paul's cross on the 15th of June; and in the autumn was engaged as one of the royal visitors of the western counties.

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