Definition of Rabble

Quotient

RABBLE noun

	In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian fable -- omnipotent on condition that it do nothing. (The word is Aristocratese, and has no exact equivalent in our tongue, but means, as nearly as may be, 'soaring swine.')

		definition from: *The Devil's Dictionary* by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

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