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defeat(2) (iou)



defeat verb trans. LME.
[Anglo-Norman defeter, from defet, Old French deffait, desfait pa. pple of desfaire (mod. defaire) from medieval Latin disfacere undo, from Latin dis- DE- 3 + facere make.]
Undo, do away with, destroy. LME-M17.
Shakespeare Othello His unkindness may defeat my life.
Law. Annul. LME.
Disfigure, deface, spoil. LME-E17.
Cause to fail, frustrate (a plan etc.), baffle. L15.
Shakespeare Hamlet My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent.
Gain victory over in battle, competition, matter decided by voting, etc.; vanquish, overcome. M16.
J. G. Farrell England had been defeated in the first test match. fig.: Shelley She Who loved me did with absent looks defeat Despair.
Do out of, cheat, disappoint; deprive of, dispossess. M16-M19.
defeater noun M19.
defeatment noun L16-M18.

Gadamer, Hans-Georg (sh)




born Feb. 11, 1900, Marburg, Ger.
died March 13, 2002, Heidelberg

German philosopher whose system of philosophical hermeneutics, derived in part from the ideas of Wilhelm Dilthey, Edmund Husserl, and Martin Heidegger, was influential in 20th-century Continental philosophy, aesthetics, theology, and literary criticism.

The son of a chemistry professor, Gadamer studied the humanities at the universities of Breslau, Marburg, Freiburg, and Munich, earning a doctorate in philosophy under Heidegger at Freiburg in 1922. He later taught at the universities of Frankfurt am Main (1947-49) and Heidelberg (from 1949), where he became professor emeritus in 1968. In his most important work, Truth and Method (1960), Gadamer developed a General theory of understanding and interpretation modeled on the experience of Art.