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• ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance.
  A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future....
• 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....
• MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one.
  Important. Material things I know, or fell, or see...
• PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy of opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• ELYSIUM, n. An imaginary delightful country which the ancients foolishly believed to be inhabited by the spirits of the good.
  This ridiculous and mischievous fable was swept off the face of the earth by the early Christians -- may their souls be happy in Heaven!...
• DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence
  an attribute of the critic. The editor of an English magazine having received a letter pointing out the erroneous nature of his views and style, and signed "Perfection," promptly wrote at the foot of the lette...