PANTHEISM, n. The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything.
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VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.
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UN-AMERICAN, adj. Wicked, intolerable, heathenish.
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NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient.
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DIVINATION, n. The art of nosing out the occult. Divination is of as many kinds as there are fruit-bearing varieties of the flowering dunce and the early fool.
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RESPECTABILITY, n. The offspring of a 'liaison' between a bald head and a bank account.
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