单词 | refragatory |
释义 | † refragatoryadj. Obsolete. rare. Inclined to controvert or refute. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > refutation, disproof > [adjective] > tending to refute rebutting1600 anasceuastical1607 anasceuastic1609 refragatory1618 convincing1624 confutative1641 refutative1652 anatreptic1656 confutatory1685 refutatorya1686 disprobative1823 improbatory1861 improbative1876 1618 G. Abbott Let. Jan. in A. Milton Brit. Delegation & Synod of Dort (2005) i. 27 The cause of the Kings Conference was not to decree and stablish any thing which was unsettled; but to heare the objections of some refragatory persons against that which was stablished. 1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. To Rdr. 45 As to the severer sort of the High-Church Aristarchi, I shall not be very Refragatory. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < adj.1618 |
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