Related:

• PLEASE, v. To lay the foundation for a superstructure of imposition.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Adore, v.: To venerate expectantly.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• OVEREAT, v. To dine. Hail, Gastronome, Apostle of Excess, Well skilled to overeat without distress!
  Thy great invention, the unfatal feast, Shows Man's superiority to Beast....
• MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly
  o dispel a source of error in an opponent. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime.
  To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude....