Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously."Of course you don't till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!"

"But glory doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument'," Alice objected.

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less."

"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many things."

"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "who is to be Master -- that's all."

Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking Glass"