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«RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ceremony, essential oil, precept, religious ceremony, rite, semi, squeezed
«SCARIFICATION, n. A form of penance practised by the mediaeval pious. The rite was performed, sometimes with a knife, sometimes with a hot iron, but always, says Arsenius Asceticus, acceptably if the penitent spared himself no pain nor harmless disfigurement. Scarification, with other crude penances, has now been superseded by benefaction. The founding of a library or endowment of a university is said to yield to the penitent a sharper and more lasting pain than is conferred by the knife or iron, and is therefore a surer means of grace. There are, however, two grave objections to it as a penitential method: the good that it does and the taint of justice.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
acceptably, benefaction, disfigurement, endowment, endowments, founding, last rites, mediaeval, penance, penitent, pious, practised, rite, sharper, supersede, superseded, supersedes, taint, The Rite
«AVERNUS, n. The lake by which the ancients entered the infernal regions. The fact that access to the infernal regions was obtained by a lake is believed by the learned Marcus Ansello Scrutator to have suggested the Christian rite of baptism by immersion. This, however, has been shown by Lactantius to be an error._Facilis descensus Averni,_ The poet remarks; and the sense Of it is that when down-hill I turn I Will get more of punches than pence. --Jehal Dai Lupe»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ancients, Avernus, baptism, descensus, immersion, infernal, Lactantius, lake, pence, punches, rite
«BAPTISM, n. A sacred rite of such efficacy that he who finds himself in heaven without having undergone it will be unhappy forever. It is performed with water in two ways --by immersion, or plunging, and by aspersion, or sprinkling.But whether the plan of immersion Is better than simple aspersion Let those immersed And those aspersed Decide by the Authorized Version, And by matching their agues tertian. --G.J.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ague, asperse, aspersion, aspersions, authorize, authorized, Authorized Version, authorizes, authorizing, baptism, immerse, immersed, immersing, immersion, in two ways, matching, performed, plunging, rite, sprinkles, sprinkling, tertian, The Rite, undergone, version
«It?s a secret, religious, weird, ceremonial rite of passage for girls that women know. Hopscotch, it was bizarre for boys, ?cause they never played it, and as a boy, I was behind walls, going, ?What- what happened? What did they do? What do they do here?? And they had a track laid out with numbers, mystic numbers- 1, 5? 7, 8, you know? A bit of a broken doll there, some girl keeping lookout with a skipping rope?»
«My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Alcohol,
Drinking,
Life,
Rules,
Smoking
| Keywords:
alcohol, cigars, intervals, meals, prescribed, prescribes, rite, rule of, smoking, The Rite
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