[f. CONFUTE v. + -ER1.] One that confutes.
1589. Hay any Work, A iiij. I wil proue … his confuter to be … stark mad.
1645. Milton, Colast., Wks. 1738, I. 297. To be the confuter of so dangerous an Opinion.
1702. Howe, Living Temple, Wks. (1834), 59/2. That will oblige us afterwards … to confute his French confuter.
1870. Emerson, Soc. & Solit., vi. 123. Confuters of Malthus and Ricardo.
