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• WORSHIP, n. Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus.
  A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride....
• Inadmissible: Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of testimony which juries are supposed to be unfit to be entrusted with
  and which judges, therefore, rule out, even of proceedings before themselves alone....
• GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportion to the quantity of matter they contain -- the quantity of matter they contain being ascertained by the strength of their tendency to approach one another.
  This is a lovely and edifying illustration of how science, having made A the proof of B, makes B the proof of A....
• HUSBAND, n. One who, having dined, is charged with the care of the plate.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Egotist, n.: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Egotist, n.: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary...
• PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics.
  The other is Pull. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...