refel

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Etymology

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From Latin refellere, from re- + fallere (to deceive).

Verb

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refel (third-person singular simple present refels, present participle refelling, simple past and past participle refelled)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To refute, disprove (an argument); to confute (someone).
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: [], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: [] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section 3, member III:
      Averroes scoffs at Galen for his reasons, and brings five arguments to refel them: so doth Hercules de Saxonia []
    • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
      How I persuaded, how I pray'd, and kneel'd,
      How he refell'd me, and how I reply'd []

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