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- 241. Ambrose Bierce: POSITIVISM, n. A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms ou ...
- 242. Ambrose Bierce: PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief th ...
- 243. Ambrose Bierce: PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art ...
- 244. Ambrose Bierce: PRESCRIPTION, n. A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation wit ...
- 245. Ambrose Bierce: PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by ...
- 246. Ambrose Bierce: QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one per ...
- 247. Ambrose Bierce: RANSOM, n. The purchase of that which neither belongs to the seller, nor can bel ...
- 248. Ambrose Bierce: REGALIA, n. Distinguishing insignia, jewels and costume of such ancient and hono ...
- 249. Ambrose Bierce: REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tem ...
- 250. Ambrose Bierce: RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable ...
- 251. Ambrose Bierce: RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and ...
- 252. Ambrose Bierce: ROAD, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome ...
- 253. Ambrose Bierce: ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mort ...
- 254. Ambrose Bierce: ROUNDHEAD, n. A member of the Parliamentarian party in the English civil war -- ...
- 255. Ambrose Bierce: RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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- 256. Ambrose Bierce: SABBATH, n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the wo ...
- 257. Ambrose Bierce: SALACITY, n. A certain literary quality frequently observed in popular novels, e ...
- 258. Ambrose Bierce: SCIMETAR, n. A curved sword of exceeding keenness, in the conduct of which certa ...
- 259. Ambrose Bierce: SEAL, n. A mark impressed upon certain kinds of documents to attest their authen ...
- 260. Ambrose Bierce: SEVERALTY, n. Separateness, as, lands in severalty, i.e., lands held individuall ...
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