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• Idiot, n.: A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• idiot, n: A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
• Idiot: A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
• MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the derivation of the word attests, and as many subjects have had occasion to learn.
  In Russia and the Orient the monarch has still a considerable influence in public affairs and in the disposition of the human head, but in western Europe political administration is mostly entrusted to his ministers, he being somewhat preoccupied with reflections relating to the status of his own head....
• PRECEDENT, n. In Law, a previous decision, rule or practice which
  in the absence of a definite statute, has whatever force and authority a Judge may choose to give it, thereby greatly simplifying his task of doing as he pleases....
• AUCTIONEER, n. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• KEEP, v.t. He willed away his whole estate, And then in death he fell asleep, Murmuring
  Well, at any rate, My name unblemished I shall keep....
• LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not.
  Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he "lost his electio...