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• PYRRHONISM, n. An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor.
  It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism....
• 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....
• PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• AFRICAN, n. A nigger that votes our way. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug.
  It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity....
• OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.
  The popular type and exponent of obstinacy is the mule, a most intelligent animal....
• SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...