Of these three postulates the last has been discredited all over the world by biblical criticism and scientific comparisons of one religion with another.
The Russian government thereupon publicly discredited its minister and demanded from the Persian government an immediate apology for something that had never occurred.
With a suspicious eye upon Neighbor Russia, the Kaiser figured it out that Turkey would be more useful to him than Italy, especially since the Abyssinian episode had so seriously discredited the latter.
A much more scientific theory of the origin of the belief in fairies is that which sees in them the deities of a discredited religion, the gods of an aboriginal people, rather than the people themselves.
Christian belief would, of course, transform this discreditedgoddess into an evil being whose one function was the destruction of souls.
This was so much believed in, that a gentleman belonging to a prominent Liberal Club actually told me that it was a good thing my father died poor and in debt, as it, at least, discredited that rumour.
For him the "sacred book" was discredited as such by its own contents, however composed; and he made it his business to attack them as an imposition on human ignorance and credulity.
It gives me pleasure to remember, that while the doctrine has been unceremoniouslydiscredited in one of the leading Journals, and made very light of by teachers in two of the principal Medical Schools, of this country, Dr.
If the graver symptoms recur while the patient is under our observation, we propose to make use of an agency discredited by modern skepticism, but deserving of a fair trial as an exceptional remedy for an exceptional disease.
Mr. Johnson had personally discredited himself to such a degree that the connection of his personality with anything he advocated fatally discredited his cause.
Schmid=, whose theosophical speculation had done so much to restore the prestige of theology at Giessen, and had utterly discredited their pretensions.
They rested, it is true, under some shadow of doubt; but the most recent observations have tended on several points to rehabilitate the discredited authority of the Lilienthal astronomer.
It was, however, much discredited by an observation made by Maraldi in 1724, to the effect that the luminous ring, instead of travelling with the moon, was traversed by it.
The Philopseudes of Lucian is a brilliant effort to ridicule the superstition of the age, but the attack would have been discredited if it had not had a foundation of fact.
In theory the voluntary accuser, without a commission from authority, was a discredited person.
The opposing schools, represented by Lajard and Windischmann,(3095) have beendiscredited or reconciled by saner methods of criticism, and wider archaeological knowledge.
Yet, artist as he was, his art would have been futile and discredited in his own time, if it had not had a solid background in widely accepted beliefs.
To enumerate and discuss these theories, many of them now discredited by archaeological research, is far beyond the scope of this work.
The jury system is discredited in Ireland by every possible means.
At the same time, the temper of the English nation repelled, with anger, the notion that a Swiss philosopher, of discredited personal character, could be allowed to denounce the science and literature of Europe.
If one person in company with many others in a room were to swear that he heard the clock strike, his testimony as to that fact could not be discredited by that of all the others swearing that they did not hear it strike.
Neither had they been discredited by proving that they were utterly devoid of character for truth and veracity, and not to be believed on oath.
Wiechmann's character and actions in the matter could not be discredited by insinuations that had no evidence to rest on for their support.
Moreover, bad wines have often been put on the markets, sour wines, and wines adulterated with water, which have discredited the native wines, and have led many to doubt whether the Argentine wine industry can ever really take root.
Confronted by a pale weakly boy like the dauphin Charles and the remnants of the discredited council, the situation of the states was stronger than ever.
Elected to conclude a peace, the great majority of its members were monarchists, Gambetta, the rising hope of the republicans, having discredited his party in the eyes of the weary population by his efforts to carry on the war.
The desert is not to abate its immemorial rigours; in itself the way shall still be as hard as when the discredited and heart-broken exiles were driven down it from home to servitude.
As a church, she lay under the ban; as a nation, she was discredited before the nations of the world.
He sees the conqueror following the old fashion of triumph--rifling the temples of his enemies and carrying away the defeated and discreditedgods as trophies to his own.
In practical effect, this is only a thinly disguised resort to the time-honored but now thoroughly discredited practice of compelling the people to use the government debt as a circulating medium.
How is it, then, that this theory has beendiscredited and lost ground?
So much is it now discredited that any criticism against my theory, which is based upon it, weighs nothing in the balance against the positive evidence of recapitulation already stated.
Such a man would be astute enough to represent the indigenous divinities as diverting their favour from the fallen and therefore discredited kings he had overthrown, and transferring it to the new victor.
Thus the wrongness of Shemaiah's proposal not only discredited his mission; it also revealed the secret of his whole undertaking and that of his unworthy coadjutors.
She was a favourite at the Castle, notwithstanding the unhealthy record of her ancient and discredited husband, the Iron Count.
Despite the fact that he is a despised and discredited man in his own country, he still is a power among people high in the government of more than one empire.
If one phantom is more discredited than another, it is the Cock Lane ghost.
Carpenter gracefully discredited as an 'amateur,' without 'a broad basis of general scientific culture'.
This kind of religious teaching does not enjoy the reputation that it once did for the reason that it has become discredited by human experience.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "discredited" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
