A book which the Mohammedans foolishly believe to have been written by divine inspiration, but which Christians know to be a wicked imposture, contradictory to the Holy Scriptures.

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.

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.

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo.