The Devil's Dictionary: Rabble
Updated May 14, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
RABBLE
-n.
In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian fable - omnipotent on condition that it do nothing. (The word is Aristocratese, and has no exact equivalent in our tongue, but means, as nearly as may be, "soaring swine.")
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