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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. Addison.

One who, or that which, refutes.

to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification, and the like; to refute. No man was able to answer him a word. Matt. xxii. 46. These shifts refuted, answer thine appellant. Milton. The reasoning was not and could not be answered. Macaulay.

Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer. The argument, though subtle, is yet answerable. Johnson.

To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute. How can these grants of the king's be avoided Spenser.

To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence.

To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To prove or to refute by proof; to clear (one's self). [Obs.]

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.

Incapable of being refuted or disproved; indisputable. -- Ir`re*fut"a*ble*ness, n. -- Ir`re*fut"a*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…