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A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement. I need not offer anything farther in support of one, or in disproof of the other. Rogers.

Capable of being disproved or refuted. Boyle.

To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute. That false supposition I advanced in order to disprove it. Atterbury.

That part of an argument on which its conclusiveness depends; that which convinces of refutes an antagonist; a refutation.

Serving to refute; refutative; -- applied to indirect modes of proof, and opposed to deictic.

t seem to make against the argument, or in favor of the opposite side, each of them being refuted in order.

To disprove or make void; to refute. [Obs.] Neither can any of them make so strong a reason which another can not improve. Tyndale.

Unanswerable; irrefutable; that can not be refuted or convinced; as, an invulnerable argument.

The quality or state of being irrefragable; incapability of being refuted.

Not refragable; not to be gainsaid or denied; not to be refuted or overthrown; unanswerable; incontestable; undeniable; as, an irrefragable argument; irrefragable evidence. -- Ir*ref"ra*ga*ble*ness, n. -- Ir*ref"ra*ga*bly, adv.

ity with; to practice. To live the Gospel. Foxe. To live down, to live so as to subdue or refute; as, to live down slander.

To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict. [Archaic] How shall I . . . suffer that God should redargue me at doomsday, and the angels reproach my lukewarmness Jer. Taylor. Now this objection to the immediate cognition of external objects has, as far as I know, been redargued in three different ways. Sir…

The act of redarguing; refutation. [Obs. or R.] Bacon.

Pertaining to, or containing, redargution; refutatory. [R.]

To refute; to disprove; as, to refel the tricks of a sophister. [Obs.] How he refelled me, and how I replied. Shak.

Capable of being refuted; refutable. [R.] -- Ref"ra*ga*ble*ness, n. [R.] -- Ref`*ra*ga*bil"i*ty (-b, n. [R.]

Refutation; confutation; contradiction. [Obs.]

To disprove; to refute. [Obs.] Reprove my allegation, if you can. Shak.

One who maintains a thesis in reply, and whose province it is to refute objections, or overthrow arguments; -- distinguished from opponent. I. Watts.

To overcome; to refute, as error. [Obs.] Foxe.