ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.

Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" - as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. We cannot stop making them, but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness.

Damning, with bell, book and candle / Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal. / A rite permitting Satan to enslave him / Forever, and forbidding Christ to save him.

UNIVERSALIST, n. One who forgoes the advantage of a Hell for persons of another faith.

MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.

Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure

LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he "lost his election".