refellere (to show by argument, that what has been said, is false; to confute anybody’s opinion or anything): redarguere (to convince of falsehood, of persons and things). (the words are found in this connexion and order.) refellere et redarguere: convincere (either to convince a person of his error, or establish the falsehood of anything triumphantly; e.g., errores): revincere (to prove the contrary of an assertion by an irresistible argument; of persons and things; compare Liv., 6, 26, 7: crimina, revicta rebus, verbis confutare nihil attinet): confutare (to make anything fall to the ground, a person or anything; e.g., argumenta Stoicorum, the refutans acts on the defensive in refuting the arguments brought against him; the confutans on the offensive, in exposing their worthlessness and cutting them up): refutare (Vid: confutare: not to admit, to push back, repulse, as it were = refute; often with the addition of oratione, a person or thing; e.g., the contrary, contraria: to refute anything more by deeds than by words, aliquid magis re, quam verbis): diluere (to weaken the force, or to show the invalidity of anything; e.g., of an accusation, crimen: the arguments or proofs of the opposite party, confirmationem adversariorum): (the words are found in this connexion and order.) refutare ac diluere, or diluere ac refellere: diluere aliquid et falsum esse docere (to make anything fall to the ground and show that it is false): dissolvere (to dissolve or annihilate by proofs and explication; e.g., a sophism, mentientem: an accusation before the judge or in the court, criminationem): to confute anything by evidence, aliquid testimoniis refutare: he has confuted himself, suo sibi argumento confutatus est: to confute anybody by his own words, suo sibi gladio aliquem jugulare (proverbially in Ter., Ad., 5, 8, 34): to endeavour to confute anybody with weak proofs, plumbeo gladio aliquem jugulare (Cic., Att., 1, 16, 2).