Read full poem →The Grape that can with Logic absolute
The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute:
The subtle Alchemist that in a Trice
Dictionary Entry
To show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute.
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Poetry examples for “confute”
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Read full poem →memorial against it. The principles of its author did not please Dr.
King; and therefore he undertook to confute part, and laugh at the rest.
The controversy is now forgotten: and books of this kind seldom live long
Read full poem →With your air indifferent and imperious
At a stroke our mad poetics to confute--"
And--"Are we then so serious?"