1869 Quotations with Ende.
- 121. Ambrose Bierce: INFERIAE,n. [Latin] Among the Greeks and Romans, sacrifices for propitation of t ...
- 122. Ambrose Bierce: INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unl ...
- 123. Ambrose Bierce: INSCRIPTION, n. Something written on another thing. Inscriptions are of many kin ...
- 124. Ambrose Bierce: INTERREGNUM, n. The period during which a monarchical country is governed by a w ...
- 125. Ambrose Bierce: INTRODUCTION, n. A social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification o ...
- 126. Ambrose Bierce: LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some p ...
- 127. Ambrose Bierce: LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper ...
- 128. Ambrose Bierce: LOQUACITY, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue wh ...
- 129. Ambrose Bierce: MACROBIAN, n. One forgotten of the gods and living to a great age. History is ab ...
- 130. Ambrose Bierce: MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conformi ...
- 131. Ambrose Bierce: MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.
- 132. Ambrose Bierce: MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity c ...
- 133. Ambrose Bierce: MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no ...
- 134. Ambrose Bierce: MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women. As in Rome Christ ...
- 135. Ambrose Bierce: MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice ...
- 136. Ambrose Bierce: NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to ...
- 137. Ambrose Bierce: ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingrat ...
- 138. Ambrose Bierce: POPULIST, n. A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found in the old ...
- 139. Ambrose Bierce: REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction.
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- 140. Ambrose Bierce: RELIQUARY, n. A receptacle for such sacred objects as pieces of the true cross, ...
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