Related:

• PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood.
  The testimony of two credible witnesses as opposed to that of only one....
• PLEBISCITE, n. A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, _Homo ventrambulans_.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PLEASURE, n. The least hateful form of dejection. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• PUBLISH, n. In literary affairs, to become the fundamental element in a cone of critics.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• SLANG, n. The grunt of the human hog (_Pignoramus intolerabilis_) with an audible memory.
  The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot....
• ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Riot, n. A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...