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KILL, V.t. To Create A Vacancy Without Nominating A Successor.
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KILL, v.t. To create a vacancy without nominating a successor.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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PLEASE, v. To lay the foundation for a superstructure of imposition.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
Adore, v.: To venerate expectantly.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
OVEREAT, v. To dine. Hail, Gastronome, Apostle of Excess, Well skilled to overeat without distress!
Thy great invention, the unfatal feast, Shows Man's superiority to Beast....
MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly
o dispel a source of error in an opponent. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime.
To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude....