REFUTATION, REFUTE, REFUTED
ADJECTIVES
1604 ► capable of being disproved or refuted; worthy of disapproval → IMPROVABLE → obs. rare
1615 ► concerned with logical refutation → ELENCTICAL → obs.
1641 ► pert. to refutation; that occupies himself with cross-examination → ELENCHICAL → rare
1754 ► capable of being refuted, liable to disproof; not proved to be true or genuine → IMPROBATIVE
1828 ► having the function of disproving; tending to refute → IMPROBATORY
1833 ► pert. to refutation; that occupies himself with cross-examination → ELENCTIC
1850 ► pert. to refutation; that occupies himself with cross-examination → ELENCHIC
1876 ► having the function of disproving; tending to refute → IMPROBATIVE
NOUNS
1449 ► disproving; refutation → IMPROVING → obs.
1551 ► disproof, confutation, refutation → IMPROBATION → obs. rare
1641 ► disproof, refutation → IMPROOF → obs. rare
VERBS
1440 ► to controvert, to refute; to reply smartly → REJAG → obs. rare exc. Sc.
1449 ► to prove to be wrong; to disprove, to refute, to confute a person, a statement, etc. → IMPROVE → obs.
1631 ► to make use of the elenchus (a logical refutation); to dispute, argue, refute → ELENCHIZE → obs. rare
1640 ► to disprove, to refute → UNBUBBLE → obs.
M17 ► to drive or force back; to repel; to repress; to refute → RETUND → obs.
1796 ► to refute, to repel → REFEL → REFELL → Sc. obs.
1892 ► to countermand; to refute → DISANNUL → Eng. dial.