Posted on 01/21/2002 6:01:33 AM PST by 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....
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
As for football - I'll never forget this year when those wolverweenies in Ann Arbor came up to East Lansing, and we beat them at the buzzer!!!:D
Reminds me of an episode of Law & Order where the judge kept complimenting the femal DA about her attire and got removed from the case!!!!
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!
See everyone tomorrow!
The only thing that comes close to a mountain in Delaware is I start jumping up and down!!!!!! I think parts of the state are below sea level at high tide!!!!
It's not allowed without permission. The Canadian chapter of the smokers organization FORCES was contacted by the government to remove the flag from their website. Of course no other website is being so coerced with threats of lawsuits - but it is interesting!!!
A number of the other FORCES chapters outside of Canada are adding the flag as a show of solidarity. Including FORCES International and FORCES Italy which are run by a Candian who lives in Italy!!!
something I wish someone would explain to the folks promoting this debacle:
How to Win a GIANT Tobacco Verdict.
I don't care what anyone's stand is on smoking - this is over the line as far as I am concerned. As a poster pointed out - the conference begins with cocktails and heavy hors d'oevres!!! Which one will they hit first after they finish with tobacco (they've already started on guns)?????
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