Word For The Day, Monday, 1/21/02, Third Annual Day of Repudiation

The Verbivores | 1/21/02 | Teacher

[RikaStrom]

In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of “word for the day”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of the day”; in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-) Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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repudiate \re*pyoo"dee*ate\ transitive verb
repudiated, repudiating, repudiates
repudiative; adjective
repudiation; noun
repudiator; noun

1. To reject the validity or authority of: “Chaucer... not only came to doubt the worth of his extraordinary body of work, but repudiated it” (Joyce Carol Oates).
2. To reject emphatically as unfounded, untrue, or unjust: repudiated the accusation.
3. To refuse to recognize or pay: repudiate a debt.
4a. To disown (a child, for example).
4b. To refuse to have any dealings with.
5. To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject.
Servitude is to be repudiated with greater care. --Prynne.
6. To divorce, put away, or discard, as a wife, or a woman one has promised to marry.
His separation from Terentis, whom he repudiated not long afterward. --Bolingbroke.
7. To refuse to acknowledge or to pay; to disclaim; as, the State has repudiated its debts.

Etymology: Latin repudiatus, past participle of repudiare, from repudium rejection of a prospective spouse, divorce, probably from re- + pudEre to shame. Date: 1545

[xsmommy]

this is a 6th Cir. brief, so maybe i can use the carrots and sodomy case, send me the cite....

[Gabz]

Thanks hon - I thought so too!!! OOh, well - back to the drawing board. unfortunately school bus drivers and construction workers were the only listings in the classified ads this morning!

[xsmommy]

Gabz, dubs loves me but loves to give me sh$% more. : )

[NeoCaveman]

Never heard it called THAT on a guy before.

Maybe its a Pittsburgh expression??

[xsmommy]

bite your tongue......

[CholeraJoe]

I frequently add the Kentucky case talking about sodomy and carrots to my memoranda.

I sat on a Court Martial panel where that was the charge. Come to think of it, the only panel I sat on and all of the people I preferred charges against had some sort of bizarre twist to them.

[xsmommy]

i guess it would be difficult, because you can fabricate at the trial level, but at the appellate level you are restricted to what is already in the record. i have seen guys talking out their butts, get their butts handed to them by the appellate judges. then there are the ones who are asleep and have no idea what you are talking about or why.

[Gabz]

XS - the reason I found out today I hadn't gotten it was because I did call. There were two interviewers a man and a woman. I was her number one choice but because the person would be working with more of his stuff (town treasurer) he had more say in the decision.

I'm going to wait until I get the letter, which should be thursday, she told me they would be mailed tomorrow. there was some vague reference to "child-care" situation that she attributed to him.

[xsmommy]

so you were on the PERV detail? fitting....

[CholeraJoe]

How is your opponent going to do if she's appearing pro se?

[Gabz]

old "your an employee of the FED gubbiment"

that should be employee of "any grubnmint"!!!!!

[xsmommy]

there was some vague reference to "child-care" situation that she attributed to him.

oooohhhh, that sounds inappropriate....

[NeoCaveman]

that should be employee of "any grubnmint"!!!!!

Any is bad, but I rank the Federales as worst. With the IRS the worst of the Federales.

Please don't audit me. I'm joking

[maxwell]

See, is that next next weekend or this weekend? I always get disconfobulated.