 |
|
 |
 |
 |
WRITERS > journalist, short-story writer > Ambrose Bierce
PRE-ADAMITE, n. One...
Vendor: WRITERS
PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation . . . . Little its known of them beyond the fact that they supplied Cain with a wife and theologians with a controversy.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
-- Ambrose Bierce, (Jun 24 1842-1914), US journalist, short-story writer; He was a noted wit, satirist and sardonic short story writer who disappeared while covering the Mexican revolution.