In August 1869.
Ambrose Bierce, writing a satirical column for the San Francisco News Letter, begins to produce the cynical definitions which will eventually become The Devil's Dictionary.
Bierce's witty definitions were imitated & plagiarized for years before he gathered them into books, first as The Cynic's Word Book in 1906 & then in a more complete version as The Devil's Dictionary in 1911.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil%27s_Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/972