What does confute mean?
Definitions for confute
kənˈfyutcon·fute
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Princeton's WordNet
disprove, confuteverb
prove to be false
"The physicist disproved his colleagues' theories"
Wiktionary
confuteverb
To show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute.
Etymology: From confuter, and its source, confutare.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To CONFUTEverb
To convict of errour or falshood; to disprove.
Etymology: confuto, Latin.
He could on either side dispute;
Confute, change hands, and still confute. Hudibras.For a man to doubt whether there be any hell, and thereupon to live as if there were none, but, when he dies, to find himself confuted in the flames, must be the height of woe. South.
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confute
To confute is to prove that something is wrong or false; to debunk or refute an argument, idea, or theory with logical reasoning or evidence.
Webster Dictionary
Confuteverb
to overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Confute
kon-fūt′, v.t. to prove to be false: to refute: to put an end to.—adj. Confūt′able.—n. Confutā′tion.—adj. Confūt′ative, tending to confute.—n. Confute′ment. [L. confutāre—con, inten., and futis, a water-vessel, from fundĕre, to pour: to overthrow. See Futile.]
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of confute in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of confute in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of confute in a Sentence
Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
Sir Francis Bacon, O Magazine, April 2003:
Read not to contradict and confute…nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
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