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

[CholeraJoe]

Probably helpful, decent and kind to pro se litigants.

Kinda like the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and chaste nurses, kind, helpful appellate attorneys are mythical characters.

[xsmommy]

she'll get a substantial evidence review which is to say the court will pretend she made all possible arguments.

[Dan from Michigan]

Bwhahahaah. I'm glad I'm driving.

[xsmommy]

Probably helpful, decent and kind to pro se litigants

Not hardly....

[CholeraJoe]

oooohhhh, that sounds inappropriate....

Is that blood I smell in the water? The sharks are starting to circle.

[xsmommy]

if i am not mistaken, it is the weekend that has 1/31-2/1 in it!

[Gabz]

You, my dear, are ethical in ways I'm not.

I'll remember that the next time I assistance in the court room!!!!

Sorry, XS!!!

[xsmommy]

chaste nurses

I am quite sure you can speak to this....

[maxwell]

So is that next weekend?

[CholeraJoe]

It's the Thursday and Friday before the Super Bowl.

[xsmommy]

this is monday, it is NOT this coming thursday and friday, but instead, NEXT thursday and friday. ARE WE CLEAR NOW MAXWELL?? : )

[Gabz]

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

You would have to say that.....................

[xsmommy]

i don't know, OPH, does it sound kosher to you, if gabz doesn't get the job because of childcare issues? that smells funny to me.

[NeoCaveman]

Debemos negar todo jesse jackson decimos.

Repudio Senor Jackson.... Si

[Gabz]

Exxactly my point. I may not be an attorney - but I'm not stupid!!!!

[xsmommy]

ay, caramba, scruffdog ha encontrado el senor bilingue en este clase, a quien dirigir su comento...

[CholeraJoe]

Smells bad to me and I'm just an employer not a lawyer.

[Gabz]

HheHeHeheheheheheheh!!!!!!!!

Ve know vays!!!!!!!!!

[xsmommy]

xshub is both a lawyer and an employer and he will not ask ANY personal questions, not even marital status, let alone child care arrangements.