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“PLEBISCITE, n. A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.”

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“PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.”

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“PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.”

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“PLOW, n. An implement that cries aloud for hands accustomed to the pen.”

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“POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.”

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“POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation.”

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“POLYGAMY, n. A house of atonement, or expiatory chapel, fitted with several stools of repentance, as distinguished from monogamy, which has but one.”

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“PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.”

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“POSITIVISM, n. A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer.”

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“POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.”

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“PRAY, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.”

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“PRECIPITATE, adj. Anteprandial. Precipitate in all, this sinner Took action first, and then his dinner. Judibras”

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“PREDICAMENT, n. The wage of consistency.”

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“PREDILECTION, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion.”

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“PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation.”

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“PREJUDICE, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support.”

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“PRELATE, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.”

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“PREROGATIVE, n. A sovereign's right to do wrong.”

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“PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.”

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“PRESCRIPTION, n. A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.”

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