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Ambrose Bierce
I, pro. In...
I, pro. In grammar it is a pronoun of the first person and singular number. Its plural is said to be We, but how there...
IDLENESS, n. A...
IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple...
IMBECILITY, n. A...
IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this...
IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient....
IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be...
ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably...
ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.
IDIOT, n. A...
IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and...
ILLUMINATI, n. A...
ILLUMINATI, n. A sect of Spanish heretics of the latter part of the sixteenth century; so called because they were...
IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision...
IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow.
IMPARTIAL, adj. Unable...
IMPARTIAL, adj. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy or...
IMMODEST, adj. Having...
IMMODEST, adj. Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble conception of worth in...
IGNORAMUS, n. A...
IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other...
IMAGINATION, n. A...
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In...
INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable . . .
IN'ARDS, n. The...
IN'ARDS, n. The stomach, heart, soul and other bowels.
Source: The Devil's...
IMPALE, v.t. In...
IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage, to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound . . . . properly, to put to...
IMMIGRANT, n. An...
IMMIGRANT, n. An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.
IMPENITENCE, n. A...
IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.
INDECISION, n. The...
INDECISION, n. The chief element of success . . . for he who from indecision standeth still hath not so many chances...
INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In...
INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Incompatibility may,...
IMPOSITION, n. The...
IMPOSITION, n. The act of blessing or consecrating by the laying on of hands -- a ceremony common to many...