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«PORTABLE, adj. Exposed to a mutable ownership through vicissitudes of possession.His light estate, if neither he did make it Nor yet its former guardian forsake it, Is portable improperly, I take it. --Worgum Slupsky»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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adj, forsake, guardian, improperly, mutable, ownership, portable, vicissitude, vicissitudes
«RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.»
«PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy of opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.»
«NEWTONIAN, adj. Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but was unable to say why. His successors and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say when.»
«UN-AMERICAN, adj. Wicked, intolerable, heathenish.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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adj, heathenish, intolerable, un-American
«SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as, the Dalai Lama of Thibet; the Moogum of M'bwango; the temple of Apes in Ceylon; the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt; the Mufti of Moosh; the hair of the dog that bit Noah, etc.All things are either sacred or profane. The former to ecclesiasts bring gain; The latter to the devil appertain. --Dumbo Omohundro»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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adj, ancient Egypt, apes, appertain, appertained, appertaining, Ceylon, crocodile, crocodiles, Dalai, Dalai Lama, dedicated, Egypt, etc., etc, hair of the dog, India, inspiring, Lama, mufti, Noah, onion, profane, sacred cow, solemn, Temple of, The Crocodile, The Crocodiles, The Dalai Lama, The Onion, The temple, Thibet
«PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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adj, disabilities, disability, Frost, Philosophy of, Platonic love
«RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless. That is the view that prevails in the underworld, where the Brotherhood of Man finds its most logical development and candid advocacy. To denizens of the midworld the word means good and wise.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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accounting, adj, advocacy, brotherhood, Brotherhood Of Man, candid, denizen, denizens, envious, incompetent, indolent, logical, luckless, prevails, The Brotherhood, the underworld, The View, underworld
«QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay.When ignorance from out of our lives can banish Philology, 'tis folly to know Spanish. --Juan Smith»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
absurdly, adj, adjective, adjectives, banish, chivalric, Don, Don Juan, Don Quixote, incomparable, insight, Juan, K.E., Ke, philology, pronounced, quixotic, smith, smiths, Spanish, Tay, unhappily
«RAMSHACKLE, adj. Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as the Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle order, though some of our earlier architects preferred the Ironic. Recent additions to the White House in Washington are Theo-Doric, the ecclesiastic order of the Dorians. They are exceedingly fine and cost one hundred dollars a brick.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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additions, adj, brick, Buildings, Dorian, Dorians, Doric, earlier, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastics, exceedingly, known as, one hundred, pertain, pertaining, pertains, preferred, ramshackle, recent, Theo, The Normal, The White House, White House
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