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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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DEMULCENT, a. [L. To stroke, to soften; allied perhaps to mollis, mellow.] Softening; mollifying; lenient; as, oil is demulcent.
DEMULCENT, n. Any medicine which lessens acrimony, or the effects of stimulus on the solids; that which softens or mollifies; as gums, roots of marsh-mallows, and other mucilaginous substances.
Softening;
mollifying; soothing; assuasive; as, oil is
demulcent.
A
substance, usually of a mucilaginous or oily nature, supposed to be
capable of soothing an inflamed nervous membrane, or protecting it
from irritation. Gum Arabic, glycerin, olive oil, etc., are
demulcents.
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