The Devil's Dictionary: Eucharist

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
ETHNOLOGY
EULOGY

EUCHARIST

-n.

A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi.

A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.

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