confuted
Speech parts
1. confuted - Adjective
2. confuted - Verb
Meaning
of Confute
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Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible.
One that will not plead that cause wherein his tongue must be confuted by his conscience.
However, he found adversaries there also in the priests of Mithras: and being confuted in the discussion of many arguments and controversies, and at last hard pressed, he took refuge with a certain widow.
In 1678 he published The True Intellectual System of the Universe: the first part, wherein all the reason and philosophy of atheism is confuted and its impossibility demonstrated (imprimatur dated 1671).