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«SACRAMENT, n. A solemn religious ceremony to which several degrees of authority and significance are attached. Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity. Some of the smaller sects have no sacraments at all --for which mean economy they will indubitable be damned.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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indubitable, Protestant, Protestants, Protestant Church, religious ceremony, religious sect, sacraments, seven churches, the sacrament
«SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardest challenge that is now flung into the teeth of the Episcopalian church by the Neo-Dictionarians.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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clergyman, clergymen, Episcopalian, flung, momentous, neo
«SALACITY, n. A certain literary quality frequently observed in popular novels, especially in those written by women and young girls, who give it another name and think that in introducing it they are occupying a neglected field of letters and reaping an overlooked harvest. If they have the misfortune to live long enough they are tormented with a desire to burn their sheaves.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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introducing, occupying, reaping, salacity, sheaf, sheaves, tormented
«SALAMANDER, n. Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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abbe, anthropomorphous, Belloc, bucket, Carcassonne, exorcise, exorcised, extinct, holy water, inhabiting, reptiles, salamander, Salamanders
«SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it. The sarcophagus known to modern obsequiographers is commonly a product of the carpenter's art.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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carnivorous, sarcophagus, the Greeks
«SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.»
«SATYR, n. One of the few characters of the Grecian mythology accorded recognition in the Hebrew. (Leviticus, xvii, 7.) The satyr was at first a member of the dissolute community acknowledging a loose allegiance with Dionysius, but underwent many transformations and improvements. Not infrequently he is confounded with the faun, a later and decenter creation of the Romans, who was less like a man and more like a goat.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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acknowledging, confounded, Dionysius, dissolute, faun, goat, Grecian, Hebrew, Leviticus, Romans, satyr, satyrs, transformations, underwent, XVII
«PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.»
«MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.»
«MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable . . . Commonly Saxon -- that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions.»
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