refellere (to prove by good grounds and convincing arguments that a thing is false; to refute a person or thing): redarguere (to convict a person or thing of error or falsehood): refellere et redarguere: convincere (to convict a person of error fully, to show incontrovertibly that a thing is false, errores): revincere (to show by convincing counter arguments that the opposite is true; of persons or things; ☞ Liv., 6, 26, 7, crimina revicta rebus, verbis confutare nihil attinet): confutare (to overbear by argument or disputation: it is only in this sense that it is = refute; a person or thing; e.g., argumenta Stoicorum): refutare (to repel: the refutans acts on the defensive; the confutans on the offensive): refutare oratione (e.g., contraria, aliquid magis re, quam verbis): diluere (to do away with, to show its nothingness; e.g., crimen; confirmationem adversariorum). (The words are found in this connection and order.) refutare ac diluere: diluere ac refellere: diluere aliquid et falsum esse docere: dissolvere (to destroy entirely).