The corpus record — Latin

refello

refello · v. a

to show to be false; to disprove

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Where it lives

Pro M. Scauro 1 · 3.37/10k
Pro Q. Ligario 1 · 3.05/10k
Pro L. Flacco 3 · 2.75/10k
Apotheosis 2 · 2.7/10k
de Natura Deorum 9 · 2.52/10k
De Oratore 15 · 2.49/10k
In P. Vatinium testem interrogatio 1 · 2.23/10k
Academica 1 · 2.05/10k
De Fato 1 · 2.02/10k
De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k
Phormio 2 · 1.84/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 1 · 1.81/10k

Densest 12 of 59 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

rĕ-fello — Lewis & Short

rĕ-fello, felli, 3, v. a.fallo, qs. falsum redarguere; cf.: si id falsum fuerat, filius Cur non refellit? Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 54,

I to show to be false; to disprove, rebut, confute, refute, repel (class.; syn.: refuto, redarguo): nosque ipsos redargui refellique patiamur, Cic. Tusc. 2, 2, 5: tu me gewmetrikw=s refelleras, id. Att. 12, 5, 3: in quo licet mihi fingere, si quid velim, nullius memoriā jam me refellente, id. de Or. 2, 2, 9; id. Ac. 2, 6, 15: testem, Quint. 5, 7, 9; 5, 13, 3; 12, 8, 14; Suet. Aug. 56 al.; opp. confirmare, Cic. de Or. 1, 20, 90; so Quint. 3, 9, 6; 5, 2, 2; 5, 7, 36; 12, 1, 45: refellere et redarguere nostrum mendacium, Cic. Lig. 5, 16: sensus, Lucr. 4, 479: dicta, Verg. A. 4, 380; 12, 644: opprobria, Ov. M. 1, 759: ea magis exemplis quam argumentis, Cic. de Or. 1, 19, 88; 1, 20, 90: praedicta re et eventis, id. Div. 2, 47, 99: orationem vitā, id. Fin. 2, 25, 81: quae dicta sunt, id. ib. 4, 28, 80: crimen ferro, Verg. A. 12, 16.

In the wild

refelli Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopiae 4.21.6
refellens Cicero, De Divinatione 2.126
refello Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 9.336
refellere Cicero, Pro Q. Ligario 16
refelli Livy, Ab urbe condita 3bis.39.28.11
refellendo Cicero, Orator 124

6 of 145 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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