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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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CRIPPLE, n. [G.] A lame person; primarily, one who creeps, halts or limps; one who has lost, or never enjoyed the use of his limbs. Acts 14.
CRIPPLE, a. Lame.
CRIPPLE, v.t.
One who creeps, halts, or limps;
one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a
lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled.
I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays
are in my mind, the reader must determine. Lame; halting.
[R.] "The cripple, tardy-gaited
night." Shak. To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or
foot] to lame.
He had crippled the joints of the noble
child. To deprive of strength, activity, or
capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of
resources; as, to be financially crippled.
More serious embarrassments . . . were
crippling the energy of the settlement in the Bay. An incumbrance which would permanently
cripple the body politic. Swampy
or low wet ground, often covered with brush or with thickets;
bog.
The flats or cripple land lying between high- and low-water lines, and over which the waters of the stream ordinarily come and go. Pennsylvania Law Reports. | ||||||||