ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.

Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests.

HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness of their internal controversies and dissensions.

EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.

DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.

INADMISSIBLE- Not competent to be considered. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible ... but there is no religion in the world that has any other basis than hearsay evidence.

LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.