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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
confute .
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Examples
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That kind of confutes a lot of things we think are supposed to connect between modernization and fertility change.
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In such intricate circumstances, the nuclear dossier would be the best pretext of pressuring and lobbying to isolate Iran, by disguising that the country is pursuing the mass destruction weapons and atomic bombs - a deceptive and compelling story which intimidates the public opinions and confutes them to shun Iran; otherwise there would not be any subterfuge for picking a quarrel with Tehran.
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[4759] Melancthon de anima confutes those that make the liver a part affected, and Guianerius, Tract.
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But this absurd tenet of Tyreus, Proclus confutes at large in his book de Anima et daemone.
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Qui commovet terram de loco suo, &c., and that this one place of scripture makes more for the earth's motion than all the other prove against it; whom Pineda confutes most contradict.
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Hierocles contends Apollonius to have been as great a prophet as Christ, whom Eusebius confutes.
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Melancholy confutes this tenet of theirs, and illustrates the contrary by many examples: as of him that thought himself a shellfish, of a nun, and of a desperate monk that would not be persuaded but that he was damned; reason was in fault as well as imagination, which did not correct this error: they make away themselves oftentimes, and suppose many absurd and ridiculous things.
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Cicogna hath many examples, lib.iii. omnif.mag. cap. 4 and 5, which he there confutes, as Austin likewise doth, de civ.
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In truth, many laws acquire force by mere custom, not by syllogistic necessity, like the arts: as Aristotle, the Phoebus of the Schools, urges in the second book of the Politics, where he confutes the policy of Hippodamus, which holds out rewards to the inventors of new laws, because to abrogate old laws and establish new ones is to weaken the force of those which exist.
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Veneri indulget, hunc decoquit alea — many too nicely take exceptions at cards, [3291] tables, and dice, and such mixed lusorious lots, whom Gataker well confutes.
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