A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
Ambrose BierceA large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the archangel for bread.
Ambrose BiercePRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.
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