Related:

• CONSULT, v.i. To seek another's disapproval of a course already decided on.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PLEASE, v. To lay the foundation for a superstructure of imposition.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Adore, v.: To venerate expectantly.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth
  most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him....
• Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly
  o dispel a source of error in an opponent. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• REFORM, v. A thing that mostly satisfies reformers opposed to reformation.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...