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SDAI-Tech1 — 4/15/2003 1:38:44 PM (archived)

I have three (3!) Unabridged Websters from different time periods including a 1933 edition which dwarves today's "unabridged" dictionary by about a third or several hundred pages.

Here's the 1983 Unabridged Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary's definition:

refutal n. refutation ; a refuting.

SDAI-Tech1

PS

You're right meretricious is not the word you're looking for - what you're looking for is three words: "The veriest verbalist." I am not, as you might suggest, a verbarian.

;-)

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CNN Breaking News: "U.S. Army: 11 mobile chemical and biological labs, documents found buried near Karbala." - Larry J - 4/14/2003 4:56:55 PM
- Re: Rumsfeld Says U.S. Will Find Iraqi WMD Materials . . . - D. Spires - 4/14/2003 7:54:54 PM
- Re: So Where Are The Weapons Of Mass Destruction . . . ? - D. Spires - 4/14/2003 7:09:22 PM
  - Re: So Where Are The Weapons Of Mass Destruction . . . ? - gbaikie - 4/14/2003 10:11:31 AM
    - Or 9/11 provided a wonderful excuse to prosecute some wars we had on the back burner. History will judge which. n/t (n/t) - alcaray - 4/15/2003 9:05:29 AM
      - As did Pearl Harbor provide a wonderful excuse to prosecute some wars we had on the back burner. n/t - gbaikie - 4/15/2003 12:51:50 PM
        
        Clearly it did not. We did not use Pearl Harbor as an excuse to invade Mexico. n/t (n/t) - alcaray - 4/16/2003 3:37:47 PM
        
        Now that would have been a good idea n/t (n/t) - gbaikie - 4/16/2003 8:26:46 AM
    - Re: ;^) . . . - D. Spires - 4/14/2003 11:18:13 AM
- Awaiting Don's refutal....;-) n/t (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/14/2003 6:43:54 PM
  - Now come on.... - LJ - 4/14/2003 6:51:37 PM
    - Never rely on online dictionaries! - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/15/2003 1:38:44 PM
    - Re: Now come on.... - gbaikie - 4/14/2003 7:57:50 PM
    - Re: Refutation.... - Raoul - 4/14/2003 6:58:47 PM
      - its all really Latin - Justin Kelly - 4/14/2003 1:33:31 PM
        
        Oh what a cheap shot Justin... - Scott - 4/15/2003 1:22:14 PM

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