to disprove

disprove, refute. with gen. prove guilty, convict.

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to weaken / shake / invalidate, annull/ disprove.

cŏ-argŭo, ŭi, 3, v. a., orig., to assail a person or thing in different directions (cf. arguo init.); hence, jurid. t. t.

Aliquem, to overwhelm with reasoning, refute, silence, expose; convict of guilt or crime, prove guilty (class., most freq. in Cic.;

syn. convinco): Graecus testis... vinci, refelli, coargui putat esse turpissimum,

Cic. Fl. 5, 11:

criminibus coarguitur,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 47, § 104:

ut illum natura ipsius consuetudoque defendat, hunc autem haec cadem coarguant,

id. Mil. 14, 36:

decreto,

Liv. 39, 28, 11:

Lentulum dissimulantem coarguunt praeter litteras sermonibus, etc.,

Sall. C. 47, 2:

Libonem in senatu,

Suet. Tib. 25:

in exprobrando et coarguendo acer (gestus),

Quint. 11, 3, 92 al. —With gen. of the crime:

aliquem avaritiae,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 59, § 153:

commutati indicii,

id. Sull. 15, 44:

sceleris,

Plin. 11, 37, 71, § 187: facinoris Tac. A. 13, 20.—

Aliquid, to prove incontestably a crime, a wrong, a fallacy, etc., to demonstrate or show to be wrong, to refute (cf. arguo, II.):

sin autem fuga laboris desidiam coarguit, nimirum, etc.,

Cic. Mur. 4, 9:

rem certioribus argumentis,

Auct. Her. 2, 5:

certum crimen multis suspitionibus,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 30, 83:

errorem,

id. Ac. 1, 4, 13:

perfidiam,

id. Fam. 3, 8, 7:

mendacium,

id. Lig. 5, 16:

Lacedaemoniorum tyrannidem,

Nep. Epam. 6, 4:

temeritatem artis,

Suet. Dom. 15:

vitia,

Quint. 2, 6, 3:

iniquitatem,

Tac. A. 3, 12:

quam (legem) usus coarguit,

which experience has proved to be injudicious, Liv. 34, 6, 4; cf. id. 31, 25, 9:

quod coarguunt fici,

disprove, Plin. 16, 31, 56, § 130:

domini coarguit aures,

betrays, publishes, makes known, Ov. M. 11, 193 (cf. arguo, II. fin.).—With a clause as object:

quod falsum esse pluribus coarguitur,

Quint. 4, 2, 4; Auct. B. Alex. 68.

con-fūto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [futo, v. intens. from foveo], to check or repress a boiling liquid, to suppress, restrain, check.

Prop.: cocus magnum ahenum quando fervit, paulā confutat truā, Titin. ap. Non. p. 87, 13 (Com. Rel. v. 128 Rib.); cf. Varr. ib. p. 87, 11.—Hence (far more freq.),

Trop.

In gen., to repress, diminish, impede, destroy, put to silence: nostras secundas res, Cato ap. Gell. 7, 3, 14:

maximos dolores inventorum suorum memoriā et recordatione,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 31 88:

audaciam,

id. Part. Or. 38, 134.—

In partic.

To put down by words, to put to silence, confute (so class.): sensus judjcum imperiosis comminationibus, Tiro ap. Gell. 7, 3, 13:

ego istos, qui nunc me culpant, confutaverim,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 3, 28:

iratum senem verbis,

Ter. Phorm. 3, 1, 13; cf.

dictis,

id. Heaut. 5, 1, 76.—

To refute, confute, disprove, answer conclusively:

hunc tactum confutabunt nares?

Lucr. 4, 488:

argumenta Stoicorum,

Cic. Div. 1, 5, 8:

opinionis levitatem,

id. N. D. 2, 17, 45:

ut verba magnifica rebus confutaret,

Liv. 37, 10, 2:

suo sibi argumento confutatus est,

Gell. 5, 10, 16.—

In late Lat., to convict, Cod. Th. 11, 8, 1.—With inf.:

nocuisse quibusdam,

Amm. 26, 3, 1:

tot suscepisse labores et pericula,

id. 17, 9, 5.

infirmo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. [infirmus].

Act., to deprive of strength, to weaken, enfeeble.

Lit.:

legiones,

Tac. A. 15, 10: munimenta madore, Sall. Fragm. ap. Non. 138, 6:

hominem,

Cels. 2, 12.—

Trop.

To invalidate, disprove, refute:

res tam leves infirmare ac diluere,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 15, 42;

with tollere,

id. N. D. 2, 59, 147;

with frangere,

id. de Or. 131:

fidem testis,

id. Rosc. Com. 15, 45:

fidem alicui,

id. Att. 15, 26. —

To annul, make void:

legem,

Liv. 34, 3; Quint. 7, 1, 49:

contractum,

Dig. 49, 14, 46:

graviter ferens aliquid a se factum infirmari,

Vell. 2, 2, 1:

acta illa atque omnes res superioris anni,

Cic. Sest. 18, 40.—

Neutr. only in part. pres. as subst.: infirmantes, um, m., the weak, sick, Sulp. Sev. Vit. S. Mart. 18, 5; id. Ep. 2, 12.

in-firmo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to establish in, fix, or confirm in (late Lat.), Cael. Aur. Acut. 3, 4, 36.

infirmo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. [infirmus].

Act., to deprive of strength, to weaken, enfeeble.

Lit.:

legiones,

Tac. A. 15, 10: munimenta madore, Sall. Fragm. ap. Non. 138, 6:

hominem,

Cels. 2, 12.—

Trop.

To invalidate, disprove, refute:

res tam leves infirmare ac diluere,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 15, 42;

with tollere,

id. N. D. 2, 59, 147;

with frangere,

id. de Or. 131:

fidem testis,

id. Rosc. Com. 15, 45:

fidem alicui,

id. Att. 15, 26. —

To annul, make void:

legem,

Liv. 34, 3; Quint. 7, 1, 49:

contractum,

Dig. 49, 14, 46:

graviter ferens aliquid a se factum infirmari,

Vell. 2, 2, 1:

acta illa atque omnes res superioris anni,

Cic. Sest. 18, 40.—

Neutr. only in part. pres. as subst.: infirmantes, um, m., the weak, sick, Sulp. Sev. Vit. S. Mart. 18, 5; id. Ep. 2, 12.

in-firmo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to establish in, fix, or confirm in (late Lat.), Cael. Aur. Acut. 3, 4, 36.

purgo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [contr. for purigo, from purum ago], to make clean or pure, to clean, cleanse, purify (class.).

Lit.:

oleam a foliis et stercore purgato,

Cato, R. R. 65, 1: cum falcibus purgarunt locum, cleared the place, freed it from bushes, etc., Cic. Tusc. 5, 23, 65; Liv. 24, 19:

arva longis ligonibus,

Ov. P. 1, 8, 59:

domum muribus,

Phaedr. 1, 22, 3:

fossas,

Plin. 18, 26, 64, § 236:

proprios leniter ungues cultello,

Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 51: cana labra, i. e. to clear or free from beard, Mart. 9, 28, 5:

pisces,

Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 22:

segetes,

Plin. 18, 26, 65, § 241.— Absol.:

levi sarculo purgare,

Plin. 18, 26, 65, § 241.—Mid.:

purgor in amni,

wash, Sil. 8, 125.—

In partic., in medic. lang., to cleanse by stool, vomiting, etc., to purge:

quid scammoneae radix ad purgandum possit,

Cic. Div. 1, 10, 16; Cato, R. R. 157, 3:

si is, qui saepe purgatus est, subito habet alvum suppressam,

Cels. 2, 12:

qui purgor bilem sub verni temporis horam,

Hor. A. P. 302:

se helleboro,

Val. Max. 8, 7, 5 fin.:

se per inferna aut vomitione,

Plin. 25, 5, 21, § 51.—

Transf.

To make even by clearing away, to level, Inscr. Murat. 582 fin.; cf.:

purgare viam proprie dicitur ad libramentum proprium redigere, sublato eo quod supra eam esset,

Dig. 43, 11, 1, § 1.—

To clear away, remove:

rudera,

Suet. Vesp. 8:

vermes clavo aëneo,

Pall. 4, 10, 4:

lapides,

id. 3, 6:

sordes,

Claud. in Eutr. 1, 383; cf.:

scindit se nubes et in aethera purgat apertum,

melts away, Verg. A. 1, 587.—

In partic., in medicine, to remove or expel by purging, rinsing, etc., to heal, cure:

purgatum te illius morbi,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 27:

pituitas,

Plin. 20, 17, 73, § 188:

fastidium lauri folio,

id. 8, 27, 41, § 101:

suppurationes,

id. 23, 1, 16, § 24:

tarditatem aurium,

id. 23, 2, 28, § 59:

succus purgat cicatrices et nubeculas (oculorum),

id. 27, 12, 85, § 109.—

Trop., to cleanse, purify (syn. lustro).

In gen.:

pectora,

Lucr. 6, 24:

urbem,

Cic. Cat. 1, 5, 10:

amplissimos ordines contaminatos veteri neglegentiā purgavit,

Suet. Vesp. 9:

rationes,

to clear up, settle, pay, id. Calig. 29.—

To clear away, remove:

metum doloris,

Quint. 12, 2, 3.—

In partic.

To clear from accusation, to excuse, exculpate, justify (syn. excuso):

ut me purgarem tibi,

Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 28:

QVIBVS DE REBVS VOS PVRGAVISTIS... QVOMQVE DE EIEIS REBVS SENATVEI PVRGATI ESTIS, S. C. de Tiburt. lin. 3 and 12 (ap. Grut. 499, 12): quod te mihi de Sempronio purgas, accipio excusationem,

Cic. Fam. 12, 25, 3:

cui se purgat,

id. Or. 29, 230:

ego me tibi purgo,

id. Fam. 15, 17, 1; so,

Caesarem de interitu Marcelli,

id. Att. 13, 10, 3:

si quis tibi se purgare volet, quod, etc.,

Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 9, 35:

si parum vobis essem purgatus,

Cic. Phil. 14, 6, 17:

velle Pompeium se Caesari purgatum, ne, etc.,

Caes. B. C. 1, 8; cf. id. B. G. 1, 28:

ea pars epistulae tuae, per quam te ac mores tuos mihi purgatos ac probatos esse voluisti,

Cic. Att. 1, 17, 7; Ter. Hec. 2, 2, 12:

accedebant blanditiae virorum factum purgantium cupiditate atque amore,

Liv. 1, 9 fin.:

factum,

Ov. P. 3, 2, 24:

facinus,

Curt. 7, 5, 39; 5, 12, 8:

crimina,

to disprove, Cic. Clu. 1, 3; Liv. 38, 48, 14; cf.

probra,

Tac. A. 4, 42:

adulescentem crimine civilis belli,

to acquit, id. ib. 3, 17:

innocentiam suam,

to vindicate, Liv. 9, 26:

suspicionem,

to remove, id. 28, 43:

ea, quae ipsis obicerentur,

to refute, id. 8, 23:

purget miles, quod vicerit hostem,

Sil. 7, 510:

aliquem alicujus rei,

Liv. 37, 28:

se adversus alicujus criminationes purgare,

Suet. Caes. 55:

illi lacrimantes nunc purgare se,

Curt. 5, 10, 11.—With acc. and inf.:

laborare regem, ut purganti se nihil hostile dixisse aut fecisse, fides habeatur,

Liv. 42, 14:

qui purgarent nec accitos ab eo Bastarnas nec auctore eo quidquam facere,

id. 41, 19.—

To cleanse or purge from a crime or sin with religious rites, to make expiation or atonement for, to expiate, purify, atone for, lustrate, = expiare, lustrare ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

di patrii, purgamus agros, purgamus agrestes,

Tib. 2, 1, 17:

populos,

Ov. F. 4, 640:

myrtea verbena Romanos Sabinosque,

Plin. 15, 29, 36, § 119:

pontifices purgantes moenia,

Luc. 1, 593:

domus purgantur lustranturque,

Plin. 25, 9, 59, § 105. —With the crime or act as an object: nefas, Ov. M. 13, 952:

crimen gladio,

Luc. 8, 518; Vulg. Ecclus. 47, 13.—Hence, purgā-tus, a, um, P. a.

Cleansed, purified, pure ( poet.):

auris,

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 7:

somnia pituitā purgatissima,

Pers. 2, 57:

purgatioris auri vena,

Mart. Cap. 1, § 7 (cf. Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 179).—

Excused, exculpated: ita fiducia quam argumentis purgatiores dimittuntur, Sall. Fragm. ap. Non. 310, 22, and ap. Don. Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 28.—

Pure, freed from sin (eccl. Lat.):

vota purgatiora, Aug. Civ. Dei, 6, 2: purgatissima ecclesia,

id. Doctr. Christ. 2, 16:

pietas,

id. Ver. Rel. 1. —Hence, adv.: purgātē, purely:

enucleate dicitur purgate, exquisite,

Non. 60, 5.

rĕ-cūso, āvi, ātum, 1 ( gen. plur. of the part. pres. recusantūm, Verg. A. 7, 16), v. a. [causa].

In gen., to make an objection against, in statement or reply; to decline, reject, refuse, be reluctant or unwilling to do a thing, etc. (freq. and class.; cf.: abnuo, renuo, denego); constr. with acc., an inf., an object-clause, with de, ne, quin, quominus, or absol.

With acc.: uxorem, * Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 16; Hor. S. 1, 4, 50:

me judicem,

Tac. Or. 5 al.; cf.:

populum Romanum disceptatorem,

Cic. Fl. 38, 97:

populi Romani amicitiam,

Caes. B. G. 1, 44:

nec quae pepigere recusent,

Verg. A. 12, 12:

nullum periculum communis salutis causā,

Caes. B. G. 7, 2; so,

nullum periculum,

id. ib. 7, 19; id. B. C. 3, 26:

laborem,

id. ib. 1, 68 fin.; Quint. 11, 3, 26; 12, 11, 10:

nihil nisi hiberna,

Caes. B. G. 5, 41:

legumina,

id. B. C. 3, 47 fin.:

servitutem,

Sall. J. 31, 20:

vincla (leones),

Verg. A. 7, 16:

jussa,

id. ib. 5, 749 et saep.:

nihil tibi a me postulanti recusabo,

Cic. de Or. 2, 29, 128; so,

psalteria virginibus probis,

Quint. 1, 10, 31:

nihil de poenā,

Cic. Planc. 1, 3; cf.:

de stipendio,

Caes. B. G. 1, 44:

qui quod ab altero postularent, in se recusarent,

id. B. C. 1, 32, 5:

Ptolemaeus recusabat regem Aridaeum,

rejected, Just. 13, 2, 11. —

Of things: terra numquam recusat imperium,

Cic. Sen. 15, 51:

genua impediunt cursumque recusant,

Verg. A. 12, 747:

rapax ignis non umquam alimenta recusat,

Ov. M. 8, 837:

(falsae gemmae) recusant limae probationem,

Plin. 37, 13, 76, § 200 et saep. —

With inf. (in class. prose, only in negative sentences or questions implying a negative):

mori recusare,

Caes. B. G. 3, 22; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 8, 6; 10, 17, 2; Anton. ap. Cic. Phil. 8, 8, 25; Liv. 22, 60, 17:

hoc facere,

id. 5, 53, 9:

ad minora se demittere, Quint. prooem. § 5: prodere voce suā quemquam aut opponere morti,

Verg. A. 2, 126:

praeceptis parere,

id. ib. 2, 607:

quicquam tentare,

id. ib. 11, 437:

tibi comes ire,

id. ib. 2. 704:

facere ipse,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 208; Plin. [p. 1538] Pan. 5; Curt. 6, 11, 36; Just. 14, 1, 6.—

Of things: pedes vitiosum ferre recusant Corpus,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 108; so id. Ep. 2, 1, 259; id. A. P. 39.—

With object-clause:

non rem (medicam) antiqui damnabant, sed artem. Maxime vero quaestum esse manipretio vitae recusabant,

Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 16:

Velinum lacum obstrui recusantes,

refusing to permit, Tac. A. 1, 79; cf. infra, II.—

With de:

de judiciis transferendis recusare,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 2, § 6.—

With ne:

Servilius et recusare et deprecari, ne iniquis judicibus... judicium capitis in se constitueretur,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 54, § 141:

sententiam ne diceret, recusavit,

id. Off. 3, 27, 100:

reliqui... ne unus omnes antecederet, recusarent,

Caes. B. C. 3, 82 fin. —

With quin:

si absim, haud recusem, quin mihi male sit,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 8:

non possumus, quin alii a nobis dissentiant, recusare,

Cic. Ac. 2, 3, 7:

non recuso quin, etc.,

id. Fam. 6, 18, 4; id. Rosc. Am. 3, 8; Caes. B. C. 3, 45 fin.:

neque recusare... quin armis contendant,

id. B. G. 4, 7; Liv. 8, 7, 19.—

With quominus:

nec recusabo, quominus omnes mea legant,

Cic. Fin. 1, 3, 7; id. Div. in Caecil. 10, 31:

... quominus perpetuo sub illorum dicione essent,

Caes. B. G. 1, 31:

neque recusavit quo minus poenam subiret,

Nep. Epam. 8, 2.—

Absol.:

non recuso, non abnuo, etc.,

Cic. Mil. 36, 100:

recusandi aut deprecandi causā legatos mittere,

Caes. B. G. 5, 6; Verg. E. 3, 29 et saep. —

In partic.

To refute, disprove:

nativitatis mendacium,

Tert. adv. Marc. 3, 11.—

In jurid. lang., to protest against a complaint; to object, take exception, plead in defence:

causa omnis, in quā pars altera agentis est, altera recusantis,

Quint. 3, 10, 1:

numquid recusas contra me?

Plaut. Poen. 5, 6, 18:

tu me ad verbum vocas: non ante venio, quam recusaro... Quoniam satis recusavi, veniam jam quo vocas,

Cic. Caecin. 28, 8 sq.:

cum reus recusare vellet, sub usuris creditam esse pecuniam, etc.,

Dig. 17, 1, 48; cf. recusatio, II. B.

rĕd-argŭo, ŭi, 3, v. a., to disprove, refute, confute, contradict (class.; syn.: refello, refuto).

With acc.:

nosque ipsos redargui refellique patiamur,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 2, 5; so,

aliquem,

id. Clu. 23, 62; Quint. 6, 3, 73 al.;

opp. probare,

Cic. de Or. 2, 72, 293; so,

orationem (opp. convinci),

id. Univ. 3:

contraria,

id. Part. 9, 33:

crimen,

Quint. 11, 1, 9:

famosos libellos,

Suet. Aug. 55. —

Of abstr. subjects: improborum prosperitates redarguunt vim omnem deorum ac potestatem,

Cic. N. D. 3, 36:

inconstantiam tuam,

id. Dom. 9, 21: advenit qui vestra dies muliebribus armis Verba redarguerit, will refute thy words, show them to be false, * Verg. A. 11, 687.—

With object-clause:

audi rationem falsam quidem, sed quam redarguere falsam esse tu non queas,

Gell. 15, 9, 7.—

With gen., to convict of, prove guilty of:

nec sane magnum aliquid efficiemus, quod illos ignorantiae redarguemus,

Lact. 3, 1, 15; cf.:

redarguti a lege quasi transgressores,

Vulg. Jacob. 2, 9. —

Absol.: poterat autem inpune;

quis enim redargueret?

Cic. Fin. 2, 17, 55; Quint. 6, 3, 72.

rĕfūto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [root fu-; Gr. chu-, cheWô, cheuma; cf.:

fundo, futtilis,

Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 204 sq. ], to check, drive back, repress.

Lit.:

semper illas nationes nostri imperatores refutandas potius bello quam lacessandas putaverunt,

Cic. Prov. Cons. 13, 32.—

Trop., to repel, repress, resist, restrain, oppose (freq. and class.; syn.: reicio, reprimo).

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.—

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.

rĕ-vinco, vīci, victum, 3, v. a., to conquer, subdue.

Lit. (only poet., and in Tac.):

victrices catervae Consiliis juvenis revictae,

Hor. C. 4, 4, 24; cf.:

revicta conjuratio,

repressed, checked, Tac. A. 15, 73:

primordia rerum aliquā ratione,

Lucr. 1, 593:

vires (ignis),

id. 5, 410.—

Trop., to convict; to refute, disprove (class.;

syn.: convinco, refuto),

Lucr. 4, 488: numquam hic neque suo neque amicorum judicio revincetur, * Cic. Arch. 6, 11:

aliquem,

Tac. A. 6, 5:

aliquem in mendacio,

Dig. 26, 10, 3:

aliquem in culpā et in maleficio,

Gell. 6, 2, 13:

crimina rebus revicta,

disproved, Liv. 6, 26, 7 (with confutare verbis); Vulg. Act. 18, 28:

crimen,

Liv. 40, 16:

testimoniis revinci,

Lact. 4, 15 fin.