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Ambrose Bierce's Definitions (in The Devil's Dictionary) D

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From: CCPA Monitor
Date: 20050401
Author:Bierce, Ambrose

DAY: A period of 24 hours, mostly misspent.

DEBT: An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver.

DEFAME: To lie about another. To tell the truth about another.

DEFENCELESS: Unable to attack.

DEGENERATE: Less conspicuously admirable than one's ancestors.

DEGRADATION: One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.

DELIBERATION: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

DELUGE: A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.

DESTINY: A tyrant's ...

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