confutavit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →confuto, confutare, confutavi, confutatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
restrain, check, repress, dampen, suppress, diminish; keep from boiling over;; abash, silence (accuser); shock; disprove, refute; convict of error; put down;
sg. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- P
Phormio
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...strenuom hominem praebuit. {An.} quid is fecit? {Ge.} confutavit verbis admodum iratum senem. {An.} eu Phormio..." - A
Capitula
Aulus Gellius
"...appositi versus Euripidi, quibus delicatorum hominum luxuriantem gulam confutavit. XVII. Sermo habitus cum grammatico insolentiarum et inperitiarum pleno..." - A
Liber VI
Aulus Gellius
"...appositi versus Euripidi, quibus delicatorum hominum luxuriantem gulam confutavit. M. Varro in satura, quam peri edesmaton inscripsit, lepide..." - P
Liber XV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...indice composita nullis testibus innisum facile confutavit. sed ipsa in custodia retenta est, suspectante Nerone haud falsa esse..."