Related:

• APOLOGIZE, v.i. To lay the foundation for a future offence.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Adore, v.: To venerate expectantly.
  -- 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....
• PRAY, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• RECOLLECT, v. To recall with additions something not previously known.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• RECONSIDER, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• REFORM, v. A thing that mostly satisfies reformers opposed to reformation.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...