The Devil's Dictionary: Rack

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
RABBLE
RANK

RACK

-n.

An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the unconverted the rack never had any particular efficacy, and is now held in light popular esteem.

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