What's the difference between confutative and confute?

Confutative


Definition:

  • (a.) Adapted or designed to confute.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The apparent differences between the glutamate-induced current and nerve-evoked synaptic response revealed by TI-233 can be explained by open-channel block of the glutamate-activated ion-channel, and do not confute the hypothesis that glutamate is the natural transmitter substance at this junction.
  • (2) The results also confute interresponse-time theories of schedule performance, which require interval and ratio contingencies to produce different response rates.
  • (3) Arguably, though, Stone and Kuznick's contention is less readily confuted.
  • (4) These results confute the suitability of this agent for the treatment of benign skin disorders.
  • (5) The Author, following a critical approach focussed on society's response to deviance and on the means of social control which society applies to defend itself from crime and criminals, confutes the thesis according to which the demise of public execution is generally considered as a step in the evolution of the humanitarian ideal of total abolition of the death penalty.
  • (6) The difference does not confute the hypothesis that glutamate is the natural transmitter substance at the crayfish NMJ, notwithstanding the fact that the action of the transmitter candidate on the postsynaptic membrane must be identical in every respect with that of the transmitter.
  • (7) administration of Diazepam is confuted and the risks of such a methodology in subjects with severe cerebral damage or in the third age, are pointed out.
  • (8) This enables us to confute the claim that psychiatric syndromes are not clinically specific.

Confute


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The apparent differences between the glutamate-induced current and nerve-evoked synaptic response revealed by TI-233 can be explained by open-channel block of the glutamate-activated ion-channel, and do not confute the hypothesis that glutamate is the natural transmitter substance at this junction.
  • (2) The results also confute interresponse-time theories of schedule performance, which require interval and ratio contingencies to produce different response rates.
  • (3) Arguably, though, Stone and Kuznick's contention is less readily confuted.
  • (4) These results confute the suitability of this agent for the treatment of benign skin disorders.
  • (5) The Author, following a critical approach focussed on society's response to deviance and on the means of social control which society applies to defend itself from crime and criminals, confutes the thesis according to which the demise of public execution is generally considered as a step in the evolution of the humanitarian ideal of total abolition of the death penalty.
  • (6) The difference does not confute the hypothesis that glutamate is the natural transmitter substance at the crayfish NMJ, notwithstanding the fact that the action of the transmitter candidate on the postsynaptic membrane must be identical in every respect with that of the transmitter.
  • (7) administration of Diazepam is confuted and the risks of such a methodology in subjects with severe cerebral damage or in the third age, are pointed out.
  • (8) This enables us to confute the claim that psychiatric syndromes are not clinically specific.

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