Exposed to a mutable ownership through vicissitudes of possession.

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His light estate, if neither he did make it
Nor yet its former guardian forsake it,
Is portable improperty, I take it.
—Worgum Slupsky
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

(n.) the pursuit and slaughter of rare and exotic animals in africa, packaged as a vacation for rich and adventurous sorts of people

A dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

an exhortation to work together to achieve my goals, which can never happen if people are working on their own goals.

One who submits to death rather than do something more disagreeable to him. The distinction between martyrdom and mere assassination is not always clear to the victim.
(also: victim)
(also: the devils dictionary)

Freaky dance moves pulled up by Lil Adam after he was literally brought to life.

(n.) the opposite of a friend; like an archenemy, but, lacking arches, they do not warrant as much support

The classical prototype of the modern "small hot bird."
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

(n.) East Asian culture fetish; when weeabooism goes too far

Apparently.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

(n.) pharmaceutical compounds, usually those which produce happiness in those who cannot manufacture it for themselves

(also: hedonism)

(n.) stating that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their "level of incompetence".
employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a position where they are no longer competent.

(also: incompetence)

(n.) an intense windstorm which forms around a low pressure front over warm tropical water.

generally sent by divine providence to shake florida up every once in a while, when things have gotten too sane

(eref: #101)

n. An infernal river whose waters caused those who drank them to forget all they knew; whereas the drinker of Spring Valley forgets nothing but the Third Commandment and the pious precepts of a sainted mother.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree

(also: everything)

(1632-1723) Dutch chemist – founder of microbiology.
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: antony van leeuwenhoek quotes)

(n.) a spiritual practice originally, having quite little to do with physical flexibility or strength.
from the Sanskrit through the Hindi, literally meaning "union, yoking, joining" (with the Supreme Spirit).
https://mea.gov.in/in-focus-article.htm?25096/Yoga+Its+Origin+History+and+Development
https://www.yogabasics.com/learn/history-of-yoga/

not all what calls itself yoga today... is?..

(also: gatekeeping)

n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can to arrest its growth, stiffen its flexibility and mechanize its methods. For your lexicographer, having written his dictionary, comes to be considered "as one having authority," whereas his function is only to make a record, not to give a law. The natural servility of the human understanding having invested him with judicial power, surrenders its right of reason and submits itself to a chronicle as if it were a statute. Let the dictionary (for example) mark a good word as "obsolete" or "obsolescent" and few men thereafter venture to use it, whatever their need of it and however desirable its restoration to favor — whereby the process of impoverishment is accelerated and speech decays. On the contrary, the bold and discerning writer who, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and uses the old in an unfamiliar sense, has no following and is tartly reminded that "it isn't in the dictionary" — although down to the time of the first lexicographer (Heaven forgive him!) no author ever had used a word that was in the dictionary. In the golden prime and high noon of English speech; when from the lips of the great Elizabethans fell words that made their own meaning and carried it in their very sound; when a Shakspeare and a Bacon were possible, and the language now rapidly perishing at one end and slowly renewed at the other was in vigorous growth and hardy preservation — sweeter than honey and stronger than a lion — the lexicographer was a person unknown, the dictionary a creation which his Creator had not created him to create.

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God said: "Let Spirit perish into Form,"
And lexicographers arose, a swarm!
Thought fled and left her clothing, which they took,
And catalogued each garment in a book.
Now, from her leafy covert when she cries:
"Give me my clothes and I'll return," they rise
And scan the list, and say without compassion:
"Excuse us — they are mostly out of fashion."
—Sigismund Smith

(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

(n.) to utilize the element of surprise by avoiding prying eyes, so as to victimize, barbarize, and cut-down-to-size one's enemize

see also ambuscado, bacon tree