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• RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Defame, v.t. To lie about another. To tell the truth about another. -- Ambrose Bierce
• ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth
  most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him....
• ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• DISABUSE, v.t. The present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed it advantageous to embrace.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgement of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• ADORE, v.t. To venerate expectantly. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary