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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• refute:
      1. 1. rĕfello, felli, 3 (to shew to be false): if that were false, why did not your son r. it? id si falsum fuerat filius cur non refellit? Ter. Ph. 2, 3, 54: to r. an opponent, r. adversarium, Cic. de Or. 2, 72, 293: to r. one's words, r. dicta, Virg. Aen. 4, 380. Join: redargui r.que, Cic. Tusc. 2, 2, 5: r. et redarguere, id. Lig. 5, 16.
      2. 2. rĕdarguo, ui, 3 (to contradict, prove the opposite): what has been assumed as probable must be r.'d, redarguenda ea quae pro verisimilibus sumpta sunt, Cic. Part. Or. 12, 44: opp. to probari, id. de Or. 2, 72, 293; Quint.
      3. 3. rĕfūto, 1 (to disprove, repel an allegation): to r. rather by deeds than words, r. re magis quam verbis, Cic. Manil. 17, 52: to r. the tribunes in a fierce harangue, r. tribunos oratione feroci, Liv. 2, 52, ad fin.: Virg.
      4. 4. confūto, 1 (to put down by arguments, silence): to r. the arguments of the Stoics, c. Stoicorum argumenta, Cic. Div. 1, 5, 8: it is of no consequence to r. in words charges disproved by facts, crimina revicta rebus verbis c. nihil attinet, Liv. 6, 26, ad fin.
      5. 5. rĕvinco, vīci, victum, 3: v. disprove, and preced. art.
      6. 6. convinco, vīci, victum, 3: to r. crimes by proofs, c. peccata argumentis, Cic. Part. Or. 33, 116. Join: redargui et c., id. Tim. 3, ad init.
      7. 7. dissolvo, solvi, sŏlūtum, 3 (to break the force of an accusation): the points they cannot r., ea quae non possunt d., Cic. de Or. 2, 28, 158: Quint.
      8. 8. dīluo, ui, ūtum, 3 (prop. to wash away: to show the nothingness of an allegation): you ought to r. these things and show them to be false, ea diluas oportet et falsa esse doceas, Cic. Coel. 15, 35: to r. the abuse of a critic, convicia reprehensoris d., id. N. D. 2, 7, 20.
      9. 9. rĕprĕhendo, di, sum, 3 (a t. t. in rhetoric): it shows no skill to r. irrelevant points, supervacua r. nullius est artis, Quint. 5, 13, 16; Cic.
      10. 10. āmōlior, 4 (a t. t. in rhetoric): Quint. 5, 13, 11: v. rebut.
      11. 11. mĭnuo, ui, ūtum, 3 (to destroy, overthrow): this opinion must be r.d, minuenda est haec opinio, Cic. Off. 1, 22, 74.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• REFUTE
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).