The Devil's Dictionary: Exhort

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
EXECUTIVE
EXILE

EXHORT

-v.t.

In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.

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