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• PANTHEISM, n. The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• TURKEY, n. A large bird whose flesh when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.
  Incidentally, it is pretty good eating. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our neighbors.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• WASHINGTONIAN, 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 want to....
• IMPUNITY, n. Wealth. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• ACCORD, n. Harmony. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary