INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that that luckless person's fall was decreed from the beginning.
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PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.Ambrose Bierce
RIME, n. Agreeing sounds in the terminals of verse, mostly bad. The verses themselves, as distinguished from prose, mostly dull. Usually (and wickedly) spelled 'rhyme.'
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PLOW, n. An implement that cries aloud for hands accustomed to the pen.
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UN-AMERICAN, adj. Wicked, intolerable, heathenish.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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HYPOCHONDRIASIS, n. Depression of one's own spirits.
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