Meanings of confute by in English

Could not a sensible child confute by obvious arguments, the shallow rhetoricians who would force this conclusion upon us?

My guide has been intuition, confirmed and seldom confuted by research.

This supposition is confuted by the history of all the nations on the continent.

But this supposition was confuted by the next shot.

Those errors have been confuted by scepticism and science.

She had no objection to being confuted by Lewisham.

And this opinion is confuted by the Philosopher in that book of his on Sense and Sensation.

Then I learnt a number of interesting doctrines from Plato which were subsequently all confuted by Aristotle.

In speaking to archæologists it is hardly necessary even to touch on this preposterous fallacy, sufficiently confuted by the monument itself.

They affect a cloudy and canting style, as if to keep themselves from being confuted by keeping themselves from being understood.

Here, then, is something reasonably certain, certainly reasonable, and may serve as an hypothesis to be confirmed or confuted by subsequent research.

The allegation is confuted by twenty volumes of Parliamentary Debates, nay, by innumerable passages in the very fragment which this writer has defaced.

A specious theory is confuted by this free and perfect experiment, which demonstrates, that the liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue.