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The act or process of refuting or disproving, or the state of being refuted; proof of falsehood or error; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine, or theory, by argument or countervailing proof. Same of his blunders seem rather to deserve a flogging than a refutation. Macaulay.…

To disprove and overthrow by argument, evidence, or countervailing proof; to prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; as, to refute arguments; to refute testimony; to refute opinions or theories; to refute a disputant. There were so many witnesses in these two miracles that it is impossible to refute such multitudes…

A pointing out; manifestation; proof; demonstration. [Obs.] You may marvel why I . . . would not rather Make rash remonstrance of my hidden power Than let him be so lost. Shak.

A kind of waterproof cloth. Knight.

Reproof. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Reproof; censure; blame; disapproval. This Basilius took as though his mistress had given him a secret reprehension that he had not showed more gratefulness to Dorus. Sir P. Sidney.

Containing reprehension; conveying reproof. South. -- Rep`re*hen"sive*ly, adv.

Containing reproof; reprehensive; as, reprehensory complaint. Johnson.

Reproof. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public. Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him. Macaulay.

Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected. [Obs.] Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them. Jer. vi. 30.

Worthy of reproof or censure. Jer. Taylor.

Reproof. Sir P. Sidney.

ver bird (Philetærus socius). These weaver birds build many nests together, under a large rooflike shelter, which they make of straw. Red republican. See under Red.

correction and improvement; revision; as, the revisal of a manuscript; the revisal of a proof sheet; the revisal of a treaty.

To compare (a proof) with a previous proof of the same matter, and mark again such errors as have not been corrected in the type.

ng; reëxamination for correction; review; as, the revision of a book or writing, or of a proof sheet; a revision of statutes.

salient angle, especially the angle at the top between the opposite slopes or sides of a roof or a vault.

The timber forming the ridge of a roof, into which the rafters are secured.

A tool for trimming the edges of roofing slates.