a. [f. L. confūtāt- ppl. stem of confūtāre to CONFUTE + -IVE.] Adapted to confute: tending to confutation.
1641. J. Jackson, True Evang. T., I. 53. Right Application of Scripture … to a fivefold Use … Secondly, Elenchicall, or Confutative against error.
1742. Warburton, Wks. (1811), XI. 207. Albinus, in his fifth section, divides Plato’s dialogues into classes…. The more minute, and different, of natural, moral, dialectic, confutative, civil, explorative, obstetric, and subversive.
