The Devil's Dictionary: Manna

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
MANICHEISM
MARRIAGE

MANNA

-n.

A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.

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