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The Devil's Dictionary: Art
by Ambrose Bierce ARSENICARTLESSNESSART -n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related as follows by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape, S.J. One day a wag — what would the…Brewer's: Hermetic Art
The art or science of alchemy; so called from the Chaldean philosopher, Hermes Trismegistus, its hypothetical founder. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Fine Arts
Those arts which chiefly depend on a delicate or fine imagination, as music, painting, poetry, and sculpture. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Fine as…Brewer's: Liberal Arts
Book-learning (Latin, liber); viz., Grammar, Rhetoric, Philosophy, Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy, and Music. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Liberal…Brewer's: Ligurian Arts
Deception, trickery. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Ligurian RepublicLiguorians A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z…Brewer's: Spagiric Art
Alchemy. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Spagiric FoodSpafields A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Related…Brewer's: Tesserarian Art
The art of gambling. (Latin, tessera, a die.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894TesterTerza Rima A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U…Brewer's: Black Art
The art practised by conjurors, wizards, and others, who professed to have dealings with the devil. Black here means diabolical or wicked. Some derive it from nigromancy, a corruption of…Brewer's: Byzantine Art
That symbolical system which was developed by the early Greek or Byzantine artists out of the Christian symbolism. Its chief features are the circle, dome, and round arch; and its chief…Brewer's: Artful Dodger
A young thief, a most perfect adept in villainy, up to every sort of wicked dodge. (Dickens: Oliver Twist.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894ArthegalArtesian…Trending
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