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• REVERENCE, n. The spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• ACCORD, n. Harmony. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• IMPUNITY, n. Wealth. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• TRUCE, n. Friendship. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest.
  Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardest challenge that is now flung into the teeth of the Episcopalian church by the Neo-Dictionarians....
• PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that -- "Stone walls do not a prison make
  but a combination of the stone wall, the political parasite and the moral instructor is no garden of sweets....
• HOMOEOPATHY, n. A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and Christian Science.
  To the last both the others are distinctly inferior, for Christian Science will cure imaginary diseases, and they can not....
• CAABA, n. A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca.
  The patriarch had perhaps asked the archangel for bread....
• ACCORDION, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
  -- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...