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Webster 1913 Edition
Refel
Re-fel′
(r?-f?l′)
, Verb.
T.
[L.
refellere
; pref. re-
re- + fallere
to deceive.] To refute; to disprove;
as, to
. refel
the tricks of a sophister[Obs.]
How he
refelled
me, and how I replied. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Refel
REFEL'
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
refel
refel
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Verb
refel (third-person singular simple present refels, present participle refelling, simple past and past participle refelled)
- (obsolete) To refute, disprove (an argument); to confute (someone).
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.iii.3:
- Averroes scoffs at Galen for his reasons, and brings five arguments to refel them: so doth Hercules de Saxonia […].
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.iii.3: