The Devil's Dictionary: Arrest

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
ARRAYED
ARSENIC

ARREST

-v.t.

Formally to detain one accused of unusualness.

God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

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