Confute /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Confuted; p. pr. & vb. n. Confuting

1. To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence.

   Satan stood . . . confuted and convinced Of his weak arguing fallacious drift.

   No man's error can be confuted who doth not . . . grant some true principle that contradicts his error.

   I confute a good profession with a bad conversation.