Immoral: Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral. If mans notions of right and wrong have any other basis than this of expediency; if they originated, or could have originated, in any other way; if actions have in themselves a moral character apart from and nowise dependent on, their consequences-then all philosophy is a lie and reason a disorder of the mind.

Example is better than following it.

Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.

In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it was somewhat marred by the sad sincerity of his conviction that although some are foredoomed to perdition, others are predestined to salvation.

RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.