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
Phormio
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...strenuom hominem praebuit. {An.} quid is fecit? {Ge.} confutavit verbis admodum iratum senem. {An.} eu Phormio..."Capitula
Aulus Gellius
"...appositi versus Euripidi, quibus delicatorum hominum luxuriantem gulam confutavit. XVII. Sermo habitus cum grammatico insolentiarum et inperitiarum pleno..."Liber VI
Aulus Gellius
"...appositi versus Euripidi, quibus delicatorum hominum luxuriantem gulam confutavit. M. Varro in satura, quam peri edesmaton inscripsit, lepide..."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..."