confutative

[Lat. confutat ( us ), pa.par. of confuto; Eng. suff. -ive.] Adapted to or having the power or quality of confuting or disproving. "Albinus, in his fifth section, divides Plato's Dialogues into cla es. Not into two general ones of exoteric and esoteric; but into the more minute, and different, or natural, moral, dialectic, confutative , civil, explorative, obstetric, and subversive."-War burton: P. S. to Remarks on Tillard. IMG:content-0582.png:[blocks in formation] 1053 "We have promised that their own dearest doctors and divines should be their confuters."-Bp. Morton: Episc. A erted , p. 102. côn-fu-ting, pr . par ., a. & s. [CONFUTE, v .] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: Confutation, disproof. cong, s. [Lat. congius .] Med.: An abbreviation for congius =a gallon. căn-gé (gé as jā), *con-gée', *con-ģēe', *con- ġie, s. [Fr. leave.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. A bow, a courtesy before taking leave, or at other times. ". as they came up with him, he made them a very low congée, and they also gave him a compliment."Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progre , pt. i. 2. Leave, departure, farewell. "And unto her her congee came to take." Spenser: F. Q., IV. vi. 42. II. Arch .: A molding in form of a quarter round, or a cavetto, which serves to separate two members from one another: such is that which joins the shaft of the column to the cincture. ( Chambers .) To give any one his or her congé : To get rid of him or her. "But the truth was, that she was occupied with a great number of other thoughts. Should she pay off old Briggs and give her her conge ?"-Thackeray: Vanity Fair.