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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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BATHE, v.t.
BATHE, v.i. To be or lie in a bath; to be in water, or in other liquid, or to be immersed in a fluid, as in a bath; as, to bathe in fiery floods.
To wash by immersion, as
in a bath; to subject to a bath.
Chancing to bathe himself in the River Cydnus. To lave; to wet.
"The lake which
bathed the foot of the Alban mountain." T. Arnold. To moisten or suffuse with a liquid.
And let us bathe our hands in Cæsar's
blood. To apply water or some liquid medicament to; as,
to bathe the eye with warm water or with sea water; to bathe
one's forehead with camphor.
To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a
person immersed.
"The rosy shadows bathe me. "
Tennyson. "The bright sunshine bathing all the world."
Longfellow. To
bathe one's self; to take a bath or baths.
"They bathe in
summer." Waller. To immerse or cover one's self, as in a
bath.
"To bathe in fiery floods." Shak. "Bathe
in the dimples of her cheek." Lloyd. To bask in the sun.
[Obs.]
Chaucer. The immersion of the body in
water; as, to take one's usual bathe.
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