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 (n): the burning to death of heretics (as during the Spanish Inquisition)
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about 1 month ago yarb said:

"'Though there are no Auto-da-Fe's in Lima now,' said one of the company to another; 'I fear our sailor friend runs risks of the archiepiscopacy.'"

- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 54

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Papageno's Words, Pt. I, by Papageno
sionnach's Words, by sionnach
Worse Than They Sound, by reesetee
Je parle francais, apparently, by mccaff
French words, by Emera
colebert's list, by colebert
Extinguishish, by whichbe
Moby-Dick, by yarb