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单词 counterprove
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counterprovev.

Forms: Also 1700s -proove.
Etymology: counter- prefix 1; compare also counter-proof n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: counterˈprove.
1. transitive. To bring proof contrary to; to disprove. Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > refutation, disproof > refute, disprove [verb (transitive)] > by counter-charge
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1679 Trials of Green, Berry 51 The woman was willing..to have counterproved the Evidence.
2. To take a counter-proof of; see counter-proof n. 2.
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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Counter To Counter-prove, is also to pass a Design in black Lead, or red Chalk thro' the Press, after having moisten'd with a Sponge, both that, and the Paper on which the Counter-Proof is to be taken.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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