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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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BU'REAU, n. buro.
In Spanish, this word bureo is a court of justice for the trial of persons belonging to the king's household.
Originally, a desk or writing
table with drawers for papers.
Swift. The place where such a bureau is used; an office
where business requiring writing is transacted.
Hence: A department of public business requiring
a force of clerks; the body of officials in a department who labor under
the direction of a chief.
* On the continent of Europe, the highest departments, in most countries, have the name of bureaux; as, the Bureau of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. In England and America, the term is confined to inferior and subordinate departments; as, the "Pension Bureau," a subdepartment of the Department of the Interior. [Obs.] In Spanish, bureo denotes a court of justice for the trial of persons belonging to the king's household. A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when
made as an ornamental piece of furniture.
[U.S.]
Bureau system. See Bureaucracy. -- Bureau Veritas, an institution, in the interest of maritime underwriters, for the survey and rating of vessels all over the world. It was founded in Belgium in 1828, removed to Paris in 1830, and reëstablished in Brussels in 1870. | ||||||||