WRITERS A-H > journalist, short-story writer > Ambrose Bierce

ILLUMINATI, n. A...

Vendor: WRITERS A-H

ILLUMINATI, n. A sect of Spanish heretics of the latter part of the sixteenth century; so called because they were light weights -- cunctationes illuminati.

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.


(C)2024 Quotable Success - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Success
Harrisonburg, VA