The Satanic Supplement

Believe,v.t. To react profitably to a convenient fiction, in compensation for any evidence which may happen to contradict it.

Cross,n. A means of inflicting protracted and unpleasant death, traditionally revered by Christians to a greater degree even than the rack, screw, wheel, gibbet and stake.

Fetishism,n. The investment of sexual desire in something which will neither cost nor squabble.
His temper was horrid and hatable;
His habits were worse than debatable.
One love had this man -
His wife, Mary Ann;
And she was both dumb and inflatable.
Rev. Wibley Beamish

Indoctrination,n. Unduly thorough persuasion towards a point of view which lacks the advantage of your approval.

Love,n. The lust that dare not speak its name. The standard pretext for emotional abuse from sexual partners, parents and Christians.

Murgid,adj. Morbid and turgid.
She considered D H Lawrence a dirty old man and Poe a murgid monomaniac.
Jolliper Gniddle

Paranoiac,adj. Convinced of the evil intentions of a qualified psychiatrist.

Reporter,n. Intermediary between the public and the official press release.

Verbose,adj. Insufficiently amenable to summary in the hundred and fifty words permitted the reviewer.

War Cabinet,n. A group of politicians entrusted, for the duration of a national emergency, with increased power; and then expected to end the emergency.