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CONSULT, v.i. To seek another's disapproval of a course already decided on.
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CONVENT, n. A place of retirement for woman who wish for leisure to meditate upon the vice of...
DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the...
DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the...
CREDITOR, n. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating...
CONVERSATION, n. A fair to the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the...
CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do me?
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DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope,...
DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead -- a...
CRITIC, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
CURIOSITY, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with...
CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much...
DESTINY, n. A tyrant's authority for crime and fool's excuse for failure.
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DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.
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CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among...
DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.
DAWN, n. The time when men of reason go to bed.
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DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of the disease by the patient's pulse and purse.
DISOBEY, v.t. To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command.
DEATH, n. To stop sinning suddenly.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
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