refel

verb

1. To refute, disprove (an argument); to confute (someone).

   obsolete, transitive

   Averroes scoffs at Galen for his reasons, and brings five arguments to refel them: so doth Hercules de Saxonia […]

Where it comes from

From Latin refellere, from re- + fallere (“to deceive”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry refel (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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