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Ambrose Bierce
INVENTOR, n. --...
INVENTOR, n. -- A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it...
ADMIRATION, n. --...
ADMIRATION, n. -- Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
PLAN, v.t. To...
PLAN, v.t. To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.
Wit, n. --...
Wit, n. -- The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it...
PATIENCE, n....
PATIENCE, n. -- A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
Source: The...
ABILITY, n. The...
ABILITY, n. The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from...
ABSTAINER, n. A...
ABSTAINER, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who...
ABNORMAL, adj. Not...
ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to...
ABRIDGE, v.t. To...
ABRIDGE, v.t. To shorten.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
-- Ambrose...
ACCUSE, v.t. To...
ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged...
ABSCOND, v.i. To...
ABSCOND, v.i. To move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The...
ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...
ABRUPT, adj. Sudden,...
ABRUPT, adj. Sudden, without ceremony, like the arrival of a cannon-shot and the departure of the soldier whose...
ACCORD, n. Harmony.<br>ACCORDION,...
ACCORD, n. Harmony.
ACCORDION, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an...
ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To...
ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgement of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of...
ACADEME, n. An...
ACADEME, n. An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught.
ACADEMY, n. [from ACADEME] A modern school...
ADMIRAL, n. That...
ADMIRAL, n. That part of a war-ship which does the talking while the figure-head does the...
ACCIDENT, n. An...
ACCIDENT, n. An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable natural laws.
ACTUALLY, adv. Perhaps;...
ACTUALLY, adv. Perhaps; possibly.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
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ADMINISTRATION, n. An...
ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or...