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Ambrose Bierce's Definitions in The Devil's Dictionary M

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From: CCPA Monitor
Date: 20060201
Author:Bierce, Ambrose

MAD: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; at odds with the majority; not conforming to standards of thought, speech and action derived by those who conform from the study of themselves.

MAGNIFICENT: Having 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 the glow-worm to a maggot.

MAMMON: The god of the world's leading religion. His chief temple is [on Wall Street] in the holy city of New York.

MAN: An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he ...

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