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Discredit
Discredit, to show to be unworthy of credit. See CORSS-EXAMINATION and HOSTILE WITNESS.
discredited
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discreditable
Not creditable injurious to reputation disgraceful disreputable
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discreditor
One who discredits
Disvouch
To discredit to contradict
Cross-examination
it. See infra, II. B. (c) the manner in which it was treated at the time. II. To discredit the evidence of the witness. A. From reasons connected with himself-- (a) that he is of bad character
Villenous judgment
Villenous judgment [villanum judicium, Lat.], a judgment which deprived one of his libera lex, whereby he was discredited and disabled as a juror or witness; forfeited his goods and chattels, and lands for life; wasted the
Liberam legem amittere
Liberam legem amittere, to lose one's free law (called the villanious judgment), to become discredited or disabled as juror and witness, to forfeit goods and chattels and lands for life, to have those
Lamarckism
in the case of animals by effort or by use or disuse of certain organs It is a discredited theory not believed by modern biologists
Discredit
The act of discrediting or disbelieving or the state of being discredited or disbelieved as later accounts have brought the story into discredit
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