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  • 81pander — [16] Pandaro was a character in Boccaccio’s Filostrato. He was the cousin of Cressida, and acted as go between in her affair with Troilus. Chaucer took him over in his Troilus and Criseyde as Pandarus, changing him from cousin to uncle but… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 82FALLACY —    arguments which seem correct but upon examination prove false. They are arguments which are PSYCHOLOGICALLY persuasive but logically wrong through mistakes in relating, inferring, or concluding, while reasoning. TRADITIONAL logic identified… …

    Concise dictionary of Religion

  • 83refute — re·fute || rɪ fjuːt v. rebut, disprove, prove false …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 84refuted — re·fute || rɪ fjuːt v. rebut, disprove, prove false …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 85refutes — re·fute || rɪ fjuːt v. rebut, disprove, prove false …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 86refuting — re·fute || rɪ fjuːt v. rebut, disprove, prove false …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 87betray —    to copulate with a third party while married    Literally, to prove false:     He swiftly confessed, saying that he betrayed the covenants of marriage . {Daily Telegraph, 29 September 1998 the adultery of a pastor who was a spiritual adviser… …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 88Kvasnikov, Lev Romanovich — (1905–1993)    The founder of Soviet scientific and technical intelligence was drafted into the NKVD in 1938, following the purge of the foreign intelligence component. Trained as an engineer, Kvasnikov was one of the first intelligence officers… …

    Historical dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence

  • 89Oath — Invocation of a supernatural or holy being called to verify the veracity of a statement. Sometimes, oaths were given over a relic or a church altar. An oath was a special appeal, an expression of sincerity backed up by the threat of divine… …

    Medieval glossary

  • 90disprove — verb Wesley s version of the story should be easy to disprove Syn: refute, prove false, falsify, debunk, negate, invalidate, contradict, confound, controvert, discredit; informal poke holes in, blow out of the water, shoot down; formal confute …

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