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• Coronation, n.: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Coronation, n: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.
  -- Ambrose Bierce...
• PREROGATIVE, n. A sovereign's right to do wrong. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• PLEBISCITE, n. A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• ALIEN, n. An American sovereign in his probationary state.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility.
  In diplomacy and officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility....
• PREJUDICE, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• SCEPTER, n. A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority.
  It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished his jester and vetoed ministerial measures by breaking the bones of their proponents....