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• DEAD, adj. Done with the work of breathing; done With all the world
  he mad race run Though to the end; the golden goal Attained and found to be a hole!...
• ESOTERIC, adj. Very particularly abstruse and consummately occult.
  The ancient philosophies were of two kinds, -- _exoteric_, those that the philosophers themselves could partly understand, and _esoteric_, those that nobody could understand....
• RAMSHACKLE, adj. Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as the Normal American.
  Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle order, though some of our earlier architects preferred the Ironic....
• NEWTONIAN, adj. Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but was unable to say why.
  His successors and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say when....
• FAMOUS, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Done to a turn on the iron, behold Him who to be famous aspired.
  Content? Well, his grill has a plating of gold, And his twistings are greatly admired....
• PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates.
  Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost....
• PRECIPITATE, adj. Anteprandial. Precipitate in all, this sinner Took action first, and then his dinner.
• INNATE, adj. Natural, inherent -- as innate ideas, that is to say, ideas that we are born with, having had them previously imparted to us.
  The doctrine of innate ideas is one of the most admirable faiths of philosophy, being itself an innate idea and therefore inaccessible to disproof, though Locke foolishly supposed himself to have given it "a black eye....
• INEXPEDIENT, adj. Not calculated to advance one's interests.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...