260 Quotations with Popular.
- 21. Ambrose Bierce: MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This defin ...
- 22. Ambrose Bierce: OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and ...
- 23. Ambrose Bierce: OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general ine ...
- 24. Ambrose Bierce: ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.
- 25. Ambrose Bierce: OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had b ...
- 26. Ambrose Bierce: PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A ...
- 27. Ambrose Bierce: PLEBISCITE, n. A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.
- 28. Ambrose Bierce: POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author ...
- 29. Ambrose Bierce: PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of ...
- 30. Ambrose Bierce: RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of ...
- 31. Ambrose Bierce: REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to ...
- 32. Ambrose Bierce: RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and ...
- 33. Ambrose Bierce: RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is ...
- 34. Ambrose Bierce: SALACITY, n. A certain literary quality frequently observed in popular novels, e ...
- 35. Ambrose Bierce: SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and folli ...
- 36. Ambrose Bierce: SAW, n. A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So call ...
- 37. Ambrose Bierce: WOMAN, n.
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- 38. Ambrose Bierce: WORSHIP, n. Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish o ...
- 39. Ambrose Bierce: X in our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the atta ...
- 40. Ambrose Bierce: ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous i ...
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