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They'll all be roving the land looking for chances to make the rich poor, to remedy the irremediable, to succor the unsuccorable, to unscramble the unscrambleable, to dephlogisticate the undephlogisticable, "because they understand that" votes are collared under democracy, not by talking sense but by talking nonsense. "

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To deprive of phlogiston, once supposed to exist as the principle of inflammability. See phlogiston.
Dephlogisticated air. See air. Are we not authorized to conclude that water is composed of dephlogisticated air and phlogiston deprived of part of their latent … heat? J. Watt, Philos. Transactions (1784), p. 332.
In medicine, to reduce inflammation in.

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They'll all be roving the land looking for chances to make the rich poor, to remedy the irremediable, to succor the unsuccorable, to unscramble the unscrambleable, to dephlogisticate the undephlogisticable, "because they understand that" votes are collared under democracy, not by talking sense but by talking nonsense. " — Latest Articles
They´ll all be roving the land looking for chances to make the rich poor, to remedy the irremediable, to succor the unsuccorable, to unscramble the unscrambleable, to dephlogisticate the undephlogisticable, "because they understand that" votes are collared under democracy, not by talking sense but by talking nonsense. " — American Chronicle