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Refel

To disprove, prove to be false. Also refell. Common in the 16th and 17th centuries; later, supplanted by refute. Latin refellere; re, back + fallere, to deceive, whence also fail, infallible. John Palsgrave (1550): I can not refell your argument, it is so evydent.
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