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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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BYE, n. A dwelling.
A
thing not directly aimed at; something which is a secondary object of
regard; an object by the way, etc.; as in on or upon the bye,
i. e., in passing; indirectly; by implication.
[Obs. except in
the phrase by the bye.]
The Synod of Dort condemneth upon the bye even the
discipline of the Church of England. A run made upon a missed ball;
as, to steal a bye.
T. Hughes.
By the bye, in passing; by way of digression; apropos to the matter in hand. [Written also by the by.] A dwelling.
Gibson. In certain games, a station or place of an
individual player.
Emerson. In
various sports in which the contestants are drawn in pairs, the
position or turn of one left with no opponent in consequence of an odd
number being engaged; as, to draw a bye in a round of a tennis
tournament.
The hole or holes of a
stipulated course remaining unplayed at the end of a match.
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