4. To disown. [Obs.] "Refuse thy name." Shak.
Refuse
(Re*fuse"), v. i. To deny compliance; not to comply.
Too proud to ask, too humble to refuse.
Garth.
If ye refuse . . . ye shall be devoured with the sword.
Isa. i. 20. Refuse
(Re*fuse"), n. Refusal. [Obs.] Fairfax.
Refuse
(Ref`use) n. [F. refus refusal, also, that which is refused. See Refuse to deny.] That which is
refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter.
Syn. — Dregs; sediment; scum; recrement; dross.
Refuse
(Ref"use), a. Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless.
Everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
1. Sam. xv. 9. Refuser
(Re*fus"er) n. One who refuses or rejects.
Refusion
(Re*fu"sion) n. [Pref. re-+ fusion.]
1. New or repeated melting, as of metals.
2. Restoration. "This doctrine of the refusion of the soul." Bp. Warbuton.
Refut
(Ref"ut) n. [OF. refuite.] Refuge. "Thou haven of refut." [Obs.] Chaucer.
Refutability
(Re*fut`a*bil"i*ty) n. The quality of being refutable.
Refutable
(Re*fut"a*ble) a. [Cf. F. réfutable.] Admitting of being refuted or disproved; capable of being
proved false or erroneous.
Refutal
(Re*fut"al) n. Act of refuting; refutation.
Refutation
(Ref`u*ta"tion) n. [L. refutatio: cf. F. réfutation.] The act or process of refuting or disproving,
or the state of being refuted; proof of falsehood or error; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, testimony,
doctrine, or theory, by argument or countervailing proof.
Same of his blunders seem rather to deserve a flogging than a refutation.
Macaulay. Refutatory
(Re*fut"a*to*ry) a. [L. refutatorius: cf. F. réfutatoire.] Tending tu refute; refuting.
Refute
(Re*fute") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Refuted; p. pr. & vb. n. Refuting.] [F. réfuter, L. refuteare to
repel, refute. Cf. Confute, Refuse to deny.] To disprove and overthrow by argument, evidence, or
countervailing proof; to prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; as, to refute arguments; to refute testimony; to
refute opinions or theories; to refute a disputant.
There were so many witnesses in these two miracles that it is impossible to refute such multitudes.
Addison. Syn. — To confute; disprove. See Confute.
Refuter
(Re*fut"er) n. One who, or that which, refutes.
