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Reldresal
Principal secretary for private affairs in the court of
Lilliput, and great friend of Gulliver. When it was proposed to put the
Man-Mountain to death for high treason, Reldresal moved as an
amendment, that the “traitor should have both his eyes put out, and be
suffered to live that he might serve the nation.” (Swift: Gulliver's
Travels; Voyage to Lilliput.)
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