Ambrose Bierce

INCUMBENT, n. A...

INCUMBENT, n. A...

INCUMBENT, n. A person of the liveliest interest to the outcumbents.

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IMPIETY, n. Your...

IMPIETY, n. Your...

IMPIETY, n. Your irreverence toward my deity.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...

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INNATE, adj. Natural,...

INNATE, adj. Natural,...

INNATE, adj. Natural, inherent -- as innate ideas . . . that we are born with . . . . The doctrine of innate ideas is...

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INDISCRETION, n. The...

INDISCRETION, n. The...

INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
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IMPOSTOR n. A...

IMPOSTOR n. A...

IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...

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INK, n. A...

INK, n. A...

INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection...

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INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not...

INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not...

INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not competent to be considered. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible . . . but there is no religion in...

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INTENTION, n. The...

INTENTION, n. The...

INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is...

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INEXPEDIENT, adj. Not...

INEXPEDIENT, adj. Not...

INEXPEDIENT, adj. Not calculated to advance one's interests.

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IMPUNITY, n. Wealth....

IMPUNITY, n. Wealth....

IMPUNITY, n. Wealth.

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

INTERREGNUM, n. The...

INTERREGNUM, n. The period during which a monarchical country is governed by a warm spot on the cushion of the throne....

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INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable...

INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable...

INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has...

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INVENTOR, n. A...

INVENTOR, n. A...

INVENTOR, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers, and springs, and believes it...

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INJURY, n. An...

INJURY, n. An...

INJURY, n. An offense next in degree of enormity to a slight.

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INCOME, n. The...

INCOME, n. The...

INCOME, n. The natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability . . .

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INTIMACY, n. A...

INTIMACY, n. A...

INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual...

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INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly...

INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly...

INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.

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JESTER, n. An...

JESTER, n. An...

JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . ...

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INJUSTICE, n. A...

INJUSTICE, n. A...

INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and...

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INFLUENCE, n. In...

INFLUENCE, n. In...

INFLUENCE, n. In politics, a visionary pquo' given in exchange for a substantial pquid'.

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