Webster
KJV
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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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DEMIT, v.t. To let fall; to depress; to submit.
To let fall; to depress.
[R.]
They [peacocks] demit and let fall the same [i. e., their train]. Sir T. Browne. To yield or submit; to humble; to lower;
as, to demit one's self to humble duties.
[R.] To lay down, as an office; to
resign.
[Scot.]
General Conway demitted his office. Hume. To lay down or
relinquish an office, membership, authority, or the like; to resign,
as from a Masonic lodge; -- generally used with an implication that
the act is voluntary.
The act of demitting;
also, a letter, certificate, or the like, certifying that a person has
(honorably) demitted, as from a Masonic lodge.
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