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Torture

.—Invented by monks, and practised on by priests on unbelieving heretics at an Auto-de-Fe, in order to bring those sinful renegades with­in the pale of the Christian Church. Whence the term impaling!! But as their souls are saved by it, it is all very right!!

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Entry taken from A Political Dictionary, by Charles Pigott, 1795.

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Torture