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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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DEDICATE, v.t. [L. To vow, promise, devote, dedicate. See Class Dg. No. 12, 15, 45. The sense is to send, to throw; hence, to set, to appoint.]
DEDICATE, a. Consecrated; devoted; appropriated.
Dedicated; set apart;
devoted; consecrated.
"Dedicate to nothing temporal."
Shak.
Syn. -- Devoted; consecrated; addicted. To set apart and
consecrate, as to a divinity, or for sacred uses] to devote formally
and solemnly; as, to dedicate vessels, treasures, a temple, or
a church, to a religious use.
Vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, . . . which also king David did dedicate unto the Lord. 2 Sam. viii. 10, 11. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. . . . But in a larger sense we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. A. Lincoln. To devote, set apart, or give up, as one's
self, to a duty or service.
The profession of a soldier, to which he had dedicated himself. Clarendon. To inscribe or address, as to a
patron.
He complied ten elegant books, and dedicated them to the Lord Burghley. Peacham. Syn. -- See Addict. | ||||||||