Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
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MAGNIFICENT, adj. Having a grandeur or splendor superior to that to which the spectator is accustomed, as the ears of an ass, to a rabbit, or the glory of a glowworm, to a maggot.
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