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English
Etymology
From Latin refellere, from re- + fallere (“to deceive”).
Verb
refel (third-person singular simple present refels, present participle refelling, simple past and past participle refelled)
- (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 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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