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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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BLAZE, n. [Eng.to blush.]
BLAZE, v.i. To flame; as, the fire blazes.
BLAZE, v.t. To make public far and wide.
A stream of gas or vapor emitting
light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame.
"To
heaven the blaze uprolled." Croly. Intense, direct light accompanied with heat; as,
to seek shelter from the blaze of the sun.
O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon! A bursting out, or active display of any
quality; an outburst; a brilliant display.
"Fierce blaze of
riot." "His blaze of wrath." Shak.
For what is glory but the blaze of fame? A white spot on the forehead of a horse.
A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of
the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
Three blazes in a perpendicular line on the same tree
indicating a legislative road, the single blaze a settlement or
neighborhood road. In a blaze, on fire; burning with a flame; filled with, giving, or reflecting light; excited or exasperated. -- Like blazes, furiously; rapidly. [Low] "The horses did along like blazes tear." Poem in Essex dialect. * In low language in the U. S., blazes is frequently used of something extreme or excessive, especially of something very bad; as, blue as blazes. Neal. Syn. -- Blaze, Flame. A blaze and a flame are both produced by burning gas. In blaze the idea of light rapidly evolved is prominent, with or without heat; as, the blaze of the sun or of a meteor. Flame includes a stronger notion of heat; as, he perished in the flames. To shine with flame] to glow with flame; as, the
fire blazes.
To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant
light; to show a blaze.
And far and wide the icy summit blazed. To be resplendent.
Macaulay.
To blaze away, to discharge a firearm, or to continue firing; -- said esp. of a number of persons, as a line of soldiers. Also used (fig.) of speech or action. [Colloq.] To mark
(a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark.
I found my way by the blazed trees. To designate by blazing; to mark out, as by
blazed trees; as, to blaze a line or path.
Champollion died in 1832, having done little more than
blaze out the road to be traveled by others. To make public far and wide; to make
known; to render conspicuous.
On charitable lists he blazed his name. To blaze those virtues which the good would hide. To blazon.
[Obs.]
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