Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who kills a prophet.
  • noun The murder of a prophet.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The murder, or the murderer, of a prophet.

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  • noun The murder of a prophet
  • noun rare The murderer of a prophet.

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  • killing of or killer of a prophet

    February 2, 2009

  • or the abolition of a sales tax.

    February 3, 2009

  • For the American Wordies, the VAT (value-added tax) is one of the facts of life in Europe. It is similar to the sales tax levied by US states, but I think the econmic mechanism works a bit differently.

    (Of course, Ragnvaeig's definition is the more traditional one.)

    February 3, 2009

  • The higher the VAT, the more your prophets go down.

    February 3, 2009