Ambrose BiercePALACE, 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; that of the Founder of… ▶371Time
Ambrose BierceSACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as... the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of… ▶371Thought
Ambrose BierceMANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, w… ▶371Death
Ambrose BierceRITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2001). T… ▶372Politics
Ambrose BierceQuotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2016). The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World, p.174, 谷月社372Reading
Ambrose BierceOSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been in… ▶351Humor
Ambrose BierceWASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not wa… ▶362Politics
Ambrose BierceHERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2001). The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary, p.110, University of Georgia Press373Hope
Ambrose BierceBigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2016). The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World, … ▶373HopePhilosophyTime
Ambrose BierceREPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2016). The Devil… ▶362HopePoliticsTime
Ambrose BierceEnthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2013). The Devil's Dictionar… ▶351Life
Ambrose BierceLife - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2016). The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World, p.126, 谷月社351Life
Ambrose BierceDog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2016). The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil … ▶362Truth
Ambrose BierceINDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2016). The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World, p.105, 谷月社373Sadness
Ambrose BierceLOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he lost his election. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2001). The Un… ▶351Politics
Ambrose BierceHabit: A shackle for the free. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2009). The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition, p.157, ReadHowYouWant.com362Reading
Ambrose BierceART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape as One day a wag - what would the wretch be at? Shifted a letter of the cipher R… ▶373Humanity
Ambrose BierceEXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2016). The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World, p.61, 谷月社351Hope
Ambrose BierceZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2016). The Devil's Dictionary: … ▶352Truth
Ambrose BierceMONSIGNOR- A high ecclesiastical title, of which the Founder of our religion overlooked the advantages. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2016). The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World, p.1… ▶363Time
Ambrose BierceLOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2011). Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tale… ▶374Truth
Ambrose BierceYear: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (1973). The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce, Ayer Company Pub363Sadness
Ambrose BierceConfidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.363Sadness
Ambrose BierceThe slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (1912). The Collected Works of Ambro… ▶374Politics
Ambrose BierceBeauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2001). The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary, p.24, University of Georgia Press363LovePolitics
Ambrose BierceTRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of guardians and the courts, with m… ▶352PoliticsTruth
Ambrose BierceRICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2016). The… ▶363Reading
Ambrose BierceA short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions ma… ▶352Reading
Ambrose BiercePRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2016). The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World… ▶374Hope
Ambrose BierceMAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle. … ▶374Politics
