Tory, the old name for a Conservative in politics, generally of very decided type; originally denoted an Irish robber of the English in Ireland.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Torture, Judicial * TotemismTory in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
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