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Ambrose Bierce
READING, n. The...
READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short...
RELIGION, n. A...
RELIGION, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the...
PRESENT, n. That...
PRESENT, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of...
REDUNDANT, adj. Superfluous;...
REDUNDANT, adj. Superfluous; needless; de trop.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...
REPARTEE, n. Prudent...
REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong...
REALLY, adv. Apparently....
REALLY, adv. Apparently.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
-- Ambrose...
REPOSE, v.i. To...
REPOSE, v.i. To cease from troubling.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
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PRESIDENCY, n. The...
PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.
Source: The...
REFORM, v. A...
REFORM, v. A thing that mostly satisfies reformers opposed to reformation.
Source:...
REQUIEM, n. A...
REQUIEM, n. A mass for the dead which the minor poets assure us the winds sing o'er the graves of their favorites....
RED-SKIN, n. A...
RED-SKIN, n. A North American Indian, whose skin is not red -- at least not on the...
REVERENCE, n. The...
REVERENCE, n. The spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.
Source:...
PRIVATE, n. A...
PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his...
REFUSAL, n. Denial...
REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal...
RESOLUTE, adj. Obstinate...
RESOLUTE, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.
Source: The Devil's...
RESIDENT, adj. Unable...
RESIDENT, adj. Unable to leave.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
-- Ambrose...
RICE-WATER, n. A...
RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and...
PROPHECY, n. The...
PROPHECY, n. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.
REPARATION, n. Satisfaction...
REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing...
RESPLENDENT, adj. Like...
RESPLENDENT, adj. Like a simple American citizen beduking himself in his lodge, or affirming his consequence in the...