Confute vs Confutative - What's the difference?
confute | confutative |
To show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute.
* 1593 , (Henry Peacham), The Garden of Eloquence :
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
As a verb confute
is to show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute.As an adjective confutative is
that confutes.confute
English
Verb
(confut)- 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.