OriginFrom Latin refellere, from re- + fallere (“to deceive”).
- obsolete, transitiveTo refute, disprove (an argument); to confute (someone).
“Averroes scoffs at Galen for his reasons, and brings five arguments to refel them: so doth Hercules de Saxonia […]”
“How I persuaded, how I pray'd, and kneel'd,
How he refell'd me, and how I reply'd […]”
Formsrefels(present, singular, third-person) · refelling(participle, present) · refelled(participle, past) · refelled(past) · refell(alternative)