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Word of the Day for Saturday, March 5, 2011confute \kuhn-FYOOT\, transitive verb: To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false. Having settled in Rome in 1486, he proposed 900 theses and challenged any scholar to confute them, agreeing to pay his expenses. Instinct, intuition, or insight is what first leads to the beliefs which subsequent reason confirms or confutes. As he says, a professor of geography does not feel obliged regularly to confute those who believe that the earth is flat. Its organizer is the Rev. Geoffrey Wilson, who wants to confute the Darwinist heretics by proving that the island is the location of the Garden of Eden. Confute is from Latin confutare, "to check the boiling of a liquid; to put down; to silence." | |||||||||
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