This is what happens when you empty bags and bags of trade show schwag onto the table in the conference room and announce that it is all up for grabs. First come, first served. Come and take it. And then the sad but true realization that nobody wants any of it. So, in desperation, you BEG the office folks to take some of it, take it home to the kids, the grandkids, the chihuahua. Do you have a cat? Take it home to the cat. You take it (three bags of it) to a TREPAC function, and try to get rid of it at $1 in TREPAC money for one grab. And you still bring home two-and-a-half bags full. Since that time, I have found three more bags secreted away in my car. So...if you want some of it, I beg you: COME AND TAKE IT!Indefeasible -- Adjective. not capable of being annulled or voided or undone. The state's constitution recognizes the citizenry's "unalienable and indefeasible right to institute government."
Did You Know? We acquired indefeasible in the mid-16th century by combining the English prefix in- ("not") with defeasible, a word borrowed a century earlier from Anglo-French. Defeasible itself can be traced to an Old French verb meaning "to undo" or "to destroy." It's no surprise (?), then, that something indefeasible is essentially un-undoable or indestructible. Another member of this family of words is feasible, meaning "capable of being done or carried out." Ultimately, all three-indefeasible, defeasible, and feasible- can be traced back to the Latin verb facere, meaning "to do." The word facere has come up at least once earlier in this journal. See if you can find it.
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