confute

verb

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Pronunciation: /kənˈfjuːt/

Etymology: From Middle French confuter, from Latin confūtō.

To show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute.
“Procatalepsis is a forme of speech by which the Orator perceiving aforehand what might be objected against him, and hurt him, doth confute it before it be spoken […].”
“bad books [...] to a discreet and judicious Reader serve in many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate.”