inabstinent

not abstinent

My hand and I were inabstinent this morning.

by Antinous March 21, 2004

pray

"To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy "(Ambrose Bierce. The Devil's Dictionary. 1911).

by Antinous September 11, 2003

deism

Its creed is pure, and sublimely simple. It believes in God, and there it rests.

It honors reason as the choicest gift of God to man, and the faculty by which he is enabled to contemplate the power, wisdom and goodness of the Creator displayed in the creation; and reposing itself on His protection, both here and hereafter, it avoids all presumptuous beliefs, and rejects, as the fabulous inventions of men, all books pretending to revelation.

--Thomas Paine

by antinous February 27, 2004

scriptures

"The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based" (Ambrose Bierce. The Devil's Dictionary. 1911.).

by Antinous September 11, 2003

spokeshave

a short-bodied plane with two handles, used for shaving small spindles, spokes, or on curved pieces.

I shaped the cabriole legs with a spokeshave.

by Antinous September 12, 2003

deist

One who believes in a god, and there rests, not mixing the one article of his faith with articles of human invention.

If you really want to understand Deism, go read The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine.

by antinous February 27, 2004

quietus

1. satisfaction of a duty or debt.
2. rest or a release, esp. death.

"Who would bear the whips and scorns of time . . . when he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin?" --Hamlet

by Antinous September 12, 2003