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|lshtext=<b>rĕfūto</b>: āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [[root]] fu-; Gr. χυ-, χεϝω, [[χεῦμα]];> cf.: [[fundo]], [[futtilis]], Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 204 sq.,<br /><b>I</b> to [[check]], [[drive]] [[back]], [[repress]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: [[semper]] illas nationes nostri imperatores refutandas [[potius]] [[bello]] [[quam]] lacessandas putaverunt, Cic. Prov. Cons. 13, 32.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop., to [[repel]], [[repress]], [[resist]], [[restrain]], [[oppose]] (freq. and [[class]].; syn.: [[reicio]], [[reprimo]]).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen.: virtutem aspernari ac refutare, Cic. Rab. Post. 16, 44: refutetur ac reiciatur [[ille]] [[clamor]], id. Tusc. 2, 33, 55: alicujus cupiditatem, id. Fam. 1, 9, 25: vitam, to [[contemn]], Sall. Fragm. ap. Serv. ad Verg. G. 4, 218 (H. 1, 73 Dietsch); cf.: temporis munera, Quint. 10, 6, 6: alicujus libidinem, Cic. de Or. 3, 1, 4: nummum, Sol. 22 med.: ad mortem si te (Fors dicta refutet!) Prodiderim, [[may]] [[fate]] [[avert]], Verg. A. 12, 41.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In partic., to [[repel]], [[rebut]] [[any]] [[thing]] by [[speech]], etc.; to [[confute]], [[refute]], [[disprove]] (syn.: [[refello]], [[redarguo]]): res refutat id, Lucr. 2, 245; 2, 867: [[nemo]] te ita refutandum ut gravem adversarium arbitrabatur, Cic. Vatin. 1, 1: testes, id. Font. 1, 1: nostra confirmare argumentis ac rationibus, [[deinde]] contraria refutare, id. de Or. 2, 19, 80; so (opp. confirmare) Quint. 5, prooem. § 2: [[neque]] refutanda [[tantum]], sed contemnenda, elevanda, ridenda sunt, id. 6, 4, 10: perjuria testimoniis, Cic. Font. 16, 35: [[oratio]] re [[multo]] [[magis]] [[quam]] verbis refutata, id. Imp. Pomp. 17, 52: infamiam pudicitiae posterae vitae castitate, Suet. Aug. 71: quos tum, ut pueri, refutare domesticis testibus solebamus, Cic. de Or. 2, 1, 2: a te refutentur, id. Fam. 9, 11, 2: tribunos oratione feroci, Liv. 2, 52 fin.— Poet., [[with]] [[object]]-[[clause]]: si [[quis]] [[corpus]] sentire refutat, denies, Lucr. 3, 350.