Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to refute; containing refutation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending tu refute; refuting.
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- adjective Tending to
refute .
Etymologies
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Latin refutatorius: compare French réfutatoire.
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Examples
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He showed this to the astronomical neighbor as refutatory of that theory of revolution.
The President A novel Alfred Henry Lewis 1885
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A power refutatory; to refute error and herefy, to con - fute and convince gainfayers, Tit. i.
Sermons and Other Practical Works: Consisting of Above One Hundred and Fifty Sermons Besides His ... 1796
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