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• RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections.
  The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian fable -- omnipotent on condition that it do nothing....
• Dejeuner, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris.
  Variously pronounced. -- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...
• QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote.
  An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay....
• YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander.
  In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMNYANK....
• ZANZIBARI, n. An inhabitant of the Sultanate of Zanzibar, off the eastern coast of Africa.
  The Zanzibaris, a warlike people, are best known in this country through a threatening diplomatic incident that occurred a few years ago....
• INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• RECTOR, n. In the Church of England, the Third Person of the parochial Trinity, the Cruate and the Vicar being the other two.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth.
  Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's noblest contribution to the development of our language....
• FELON, n. A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...