refelとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin refellere, from re- + fallere (“to deceive”).

動詞

refel (三人称単数 現在形 refels, 現在分詞 refelling, 過去形および過去分詞形 refelled)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To refute, disprove (an argument); to confute (someone).
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970, partition 1, section 3, member III:

     Averroes scoffs at Galen for his reasons, and brings five arguments to refel them: so doth Hercules de Saxonia […]

   • c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “Measvre for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, かつ the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     How I persuaded, how I pray'd, and kneel'd,
     How he refell'd me, and how I reply'd […]