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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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CHORUS, n.
A band of singers and
dancers.
The Grecian tragedy was at first nothing but a
chorus of singers. A company of
persons supposed to behold what passed in the acts of a tragedy,
and to sing the sentiments which the events suggested in couplets
or verses between the acts; also, that which was thus sung by the
chorus.
What the lofty, grave tragedians taught An interpreter in a dumb show or
play.
[Obs.] A company of singers
singing in concert.
A composition of two or
more parts, each of which is intended to be sung by a number of
voices.
Parts of a song or hymn
recurring at intervals, as at the end of stanzas; also, a company
of singers who join with the singer or choir in singer or choir
in singing such parts.
The simultaneous of a company in any
noisy demonstration; as, a Chorus of shouts and
catcalls.
To sing in chorus] to
exclaim simultaneously.
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