单词 | refutatory |
释义 | refutatoryadj. = refutative adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > refutation, disproof > [adjective] > tending to refute rebutting1600 anasceuastical1607 anasceuastic1609 refragatory1618 convincing1624 confutative1641 refutative1652 anatreptic1656 confutatory1685 refutatorya1686 disprobative1823 improbatory1861 improbative1876 a1686 J. Gordon Hist. Scots Affairs (1841) II. 47 Many doubted if all of them understood either the Arminian tenents, or the refutatorye argumentes therof. 1739 R. Erskine Gospel-compulsion 23 A power refutatory, to refute Error and Heresy. 1753 W. Cockburn Clerk's Assistant xxxvii. 251 To obtain Sentence in your Appeal, you must appeal from such Denial, or Assignation of refutatory Apostles. 1823 Christian Observer Nov. 683/1 Most of the publications which have entered upon the discussion have addressed themselves chiefly to the refutatory class of arguments. 1854 P. M. de Colquhoun Summ. Rom. Civil Law III. §2326. 591 Sometimes..the possibility of refutatory legal proof is cut off in advance by the very nature of the case. 1902 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 23 396 The figure may for instance be employed in refutatory argument. 1950 A. C. Baird Argumentation, Discussion, & Deb. xxv. 325 Most amateur debaters err in evolving impressive constructive cases and in ignoring too largely the refutatory elements. 2000 T. R. Brereton Educating U.S. Army iv. 58 Wagner contemptuously rebutted Chester's critique with refutatory evidence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1686 |
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