1. It does not take logicians or historians or anthropologists to confute them. 2. Yet several other " certain " failures confuted their detractors. 3. The authorities dragged Gyergyay through the mire, but could not confute anything. 4. Here he was forced to attend a Cotton sermon in October 1643, which he confuted . 5. He answered : " I am sent to you to confute , not to embrace your heresy. 6. Thirty-seven articles were then drawn up and sent to the University of Cambridge to be confuted . 7. To confute his detractors he now wrote the last of the series, entitled " Envy ". 8. In a book on lifestowing Frigo most notably confuted the Derridean notion of the archive as a form of power. 9. He began by applauding the prosecution of the author he was confuting ; Daniel Waterland came in 1730 to his defence. 10. In the same year More confuted a sermon preached by Andrew Perne in Norwich Cathedral, and a controversy grew up.