What is "controvert"

Usage examples of "controvert".

Although this was the headline of the census, all of the other numbers in it controverted this lurid claim.

To controvert the reasons which made me postpone my flight to the 27th of August, a special revelation would have been requisite.

It has been considered by Congress, recommitted & reformed by a committee according to sentiments expressed on other parts of it, but the principle referred to, having not been controverted at all, stands in this as in the original report.

Gibbon, with his usual sneer, controverted it, perhaps in resentment of Johnson's having talked with some disgust of his ugliness, which one would think a PHILOSOPHER would not mind.

Johnson, that there should be a bill brought into parliament that the controverted elections for Scotland should be tried in that country, at their own Abbey of Holy-Rood House, and not here.

I never cared to meddle with things that were controverted, and in dispute among the saints, especially things of the lowest nature.

He felt, however, that the latter possibil j ity was controverted by the fact .

Any controvertible claim to have discovered telepathy would, therefore, be surely controverted.

It is accordingly on this battle-field, almost solely, that the rights of the individual against society have been asserted on broad grounds of principle, and the claim of society to exercise authority over dissentients openly controverted.

From the point of view of a student of mythology, the most important consequences of what Copernicus wrote of the universe in 1543 followed from his presentation there of an image controverting and refuting the obvious "facts" that everybody everywhere could see.

But Passengers, I am told, take wry amusement in controverting our skills.