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confutare

confutare [CL] , to confute, overcome in argument. b to defeat, discomfit. [Silvester] Fariseorum rabbites dira disputationum spicula ‥ torquentes ‥ ~at Aldh. VirgP 25; ~at, oberstaelid GlC C 858; exhortatorias ‥ litteras ‥, quibus potentius ~are posset eos Bede HE V 21; archipraesulis, qui ‥ infirmarum personarum testimonio accusante ~abatur W. Poit. I 53; si vicissent Christianos apertis argumentationibus ~atos, in eorum sectam transiret W. Malm. GR IV 317; scriptura continens tam fantasticos errores ‥ est ab omnibus usum racionis habentibus ~anda Ockham Pol. III 190.  b s1345 Johannes ‥ obsidionem [castri Dagilloun] deseruit ~atus Meaux III 54.

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