title: The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary: with 851 Newly Discovered Words and Definitions Added to the Previous Thousand-Word Collection
author:  Ambrose Bierce 
description: The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary With 851 Newly Discovered Words and Definitions Added to the Previous Thousand-Word Collection
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  # The Devil's Dictionary
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Ambrose Bierce
  
  
  This page copyright © 2002 Munsey's.
  
  
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  AUTHOR'S PREFACE
  
  
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  ### AUTHOR'S PREFACE
  
  
  
  
  
    
  _The Devil's Dictionary_ was begun in a weekly paper in 1881,
  
  
  and was continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906. In
  
  
  that year a large part of it was published in covers with the title _
  
  
  The Cynic's Word Book_, a name which the author had not the power
  
  
  to reject or happiness to approve. To quote the publishers of the
  
  
  present work:
  
  
    
  "This more reverent title had previously been forced upon him by
  
  
  the religious scruples of the last newspaper in which a part of the
  
  
  work had appeared, with the natural consequence that when it came out
  
  
  in covers the country already had 