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• Abstainer, n.: A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• BATTLE, n. A method of untying with the teeth of a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• BIGAMY, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.
  -- 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
• JEWS-HARP, n. An unmusical instrument, played by holding it fast with the teeth and trying to brush it away with the finger.
  -- 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....