[a. L. confūtātor, agent-n. from confūtāre to CONFUTE.] = CONFUTER.

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1854.  H. Miller, Footpr. Creat., viii. (1874), 153. His painstaking confutator. Ibid. (1858), Rambl. Geol., 237. Their confutators … able to render them back but mere return glances.

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