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• Ambition, n. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
  -- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PALACE, n. A fine and costly residence, particularly that of a great official.
  The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian Church is called a palace...
• PRELATE, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment.
  One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• RECTOR, n. In the Church of England, the Third Person of the parochial Trinity, the Cruate and the Vicar being the other two.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics.
  Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus tells of a peasant who was occupied by a different devil for every day in the week, and on Sundays by two....
• SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited. The Duchess of Orleans relates that the irreverent old calumniator, Marshal Villeroi, who in his youth had known St.
  Francis de Sales, said, on hearing him called sai...
• NON-COMBATANT, n. A dead Quaker. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• EULOGY, n. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...