In the interest of advancing the art of etymology and to move our glorious English language forward to the year 2010; and in the spirit of playwright William Shakespeare and modern day philosopher/thinker(currently unemployed) Sarah Louise Heath Palin, we offer the following from Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary for your elucidation:
re-futation \ref-yu-'ta-shen\ n(1548): the act or process of refuting
refute \ri-'fyut\ vt re-fut-ed; re-fut-ing [L refutare, fr. re + - futare to beat - more at BEAT] (1597) 1: to prove wrong by argument or evidence: show to be false or erroneous 2: to deny the truth or accuracy of < refuted the election returns which showed her the loser
repudiate \ri-'pyud-e-,at\ vt [L repudiatus, pp. of repudiare, fr. repudium divorce] (1545) 1:to divorce or separate formally from(a woman) 2: to refuse to have anything to do with: DISOWN 3a: to refuse to accept; esp: to reject as unauthorized or having no binding force b: to reject as untrue or unjust <-a charge> 4: to refuse to acknowlege or pay syn see DECLINE
Given this wonderful information from Merriam Webster, the Unabashed Dictionary, utilizing this as our unique etymology, defines the following term:
re-fu-di-ate \ri-'fyud-e-,at\ vt [old Palin refudiatare, idiocy we guess] 1: to demonstrate ignorance 2: to demonstrate ignorance ie, "Sarah Palin refudiates every time she writes on the palm of her hand or opens her mouth" See also; old "W": NUCULAR; MISREMEMBER
re-futation \ref-yu-'ta-shen\ n(1548): the act or process of refuting
refute \ri-'fyut\ vt re-fut-ed; re-fut-ing [L refutare, fr. re + - futare to beat - more at BEAT] (1597) 1: to prove wrong by argument or evidence: show to be false or erroneous 2: to deny the truth or accuracy of < refuted the election returns which showed her the loser
repudiate \ri-'pyud-e-,at\ vt [L repudiatus, pp. of repudiare, fr. repudium divorce] (1545) 1:to divorce or separate formally from(a woman) 2: to refuse to have anything to do with: DISOWN 3a: to refuse to accept; esp: to reject as unauthorized or having no binding force b: to reject as untrue or unjust <-a charge> 4: to refuse to acknowlege or pay syn see DECLINE
Given this wonderful information from Merriam Webster, the Unabashed Dictionary, utilizing this as our unique etymology, defines the following term:
re-fu-di-ate \ri-'fyud-e-,at\ vt [old Palin refudiatare, idiocy we guess] 1: to demonstrate ignorance 2: to demonstrate ignorance ie, "Sarah Palin refudiates every time she writes on the palm of her hand or opens her mouth" See also; old "W": NUCULAR; MISREMEMBER
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