Ambrose Bierce

CONSULT, v.i. To...

CONSULT, v.i. To...

CONSULT, v.i. To seek another's disapproval of a course already decided on.

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CONVENT, n. A...

CONVENT, n. A...

CONVENT, n. A place of retirement for woman who wish for leisure to meditate upon the vice of...

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DELUGE, n. A...

DELUGE, n. A...

DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the...

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DIAPHRAGM, n. A...

DIAPHRAGM, n. A...

DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the...

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CREDITOR, n. One...

CREDITOR, n. One...

CREDITOR, n. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating...

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CONVERSATION, n. A...

CONVERSATION, n. A...

CONVERSATION, n. A fair to the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the...

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CUI BONO? [Latin]...

CUI BONO? [Latin]...

CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do me?

Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...

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DELUSION, n. The...

DELUSION, n. The...

DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope,...

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DIGESTION, n. The...

DIGESTION, n. The...

DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead -- a...

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CRITIC, n. A...

CRITIC, n. A...

CRITIC, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.

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CURIOSITY, n. An...

CURIOSITY, n. An...

CURIOSITY, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with...

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CUNNING, n. The...

CUNNING, n. The...

CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much...

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DESTINY, n. A...

DESTINY, n. A...

DESTINY, n. A tyrant's authority for crime and fool's excuse for failure.

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DISOBEDIENCE, n. The...

DISOBEDIENCE, n. The...

DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.

Source: The Devil's...

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CYNIC, n. A...

CYNIC, n. A...

CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among...

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DEJEUNER, n. The...

DEJEUNER, n. The...

DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.

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DAWN, n. The...

DAWN, n. The...

DAWN, n. The time when men of reason go to bed.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...

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DIAGNOSIS, n. A...

DIAGNOSIS, n. A...

DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of the disease by the patient's pulse and purse.

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DISOBEY, v.t. To...

DISOBEY, v.t. To...

DISOBEY, v.t. To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command.

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DEATH, n. To...

DEATH, n. To...

DEATH, n. To stop sinning suddenly.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
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