Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
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LOW-BRED, adj. 'Raised' instead of brought up.
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FELON, n. A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.
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Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
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INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.
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