Coronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.
Ambrose BierceBrain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.
Ambrose BierceSabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
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