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Definition of Manes

Man
Man
  MANES   noun
The immortal parts of dead Greeks and Romans.  They were in a state of dull discomfort until the bodies from which they had exhaled were buried and burned; and they seem not to have been particularly happy afterward.
 

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The Devil's Dictionary
by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

Manicheism
Manicheism

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