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PUSH, n. One...

PUSH, n. One...

PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is...

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PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging...

PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging...

PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating...

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REASON, n. Propensitate...

REASON, n. Propensitate...

REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
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PROPERTY, n. Any...

PROPERTY, n. Any...

PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever...

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RASCAL, n. A...

RASCAL, n. A...

RASCAL, n. A fool considered under another aspect.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...

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RADIUM, n. A...

RADIUM, n. A...

RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool...

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PROSPECT, n. An...

PROSPECT, n. An...

PROSPECT, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden.

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REPENTANCE, n. The...

REPENTANCE, n. The...

REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation...

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RIGHT, n. Legitimate...

RIGHT, n. Legitimate...

RIGHT, n. Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the...

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RICH, adj. Holding...

RICH, adj. Holding...

RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty,...

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SELFISH, adj. Devoid...

SELFISH, adj. Devoid...

SELFISH, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.

Source: The...

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TRUST, n. In...

TRUST, n. In...

TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small...

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WITCH, n. (1)...

WITCH, n. (1)...

WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive...

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ZOOLOGY, n. The...

ZOOLOGY, n. The...

ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly (Musca maledicta). The...

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EXPERIENCE, n. The...

EXPERIENCE, n. The...

EXPERIENCE, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have...

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GENEALOGY, n. An...

GENEALOGY, n. An...

GENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his...

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FREEBOOTER, n. A...

FREEBOOTER, n. A...

FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of...

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GNOSTICS, n. A...

GNOSTICS, n. A...

GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists....

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HABIT, n. A...

HABIT, n. A...

HABIT, n. A shackle for the free.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
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HOMILETICS, n. The...

HOMILETICS, n. The...

HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the...

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