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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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DISMEMBER, v.t. [dis and member.]
To
tear limb from limb] to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to
tear or cut in pieces; to break up.
Fowls obscene dismembered his remains. Pope. A society lacerated and dismembered. Gladstone. By whose hands the blow should be struck which would dismember that once mighty empire. Buckle. To deprive of membership.
[Obs.]
They were dismembered by vote of the house. R. North. Syn. -- To disjoint; dislocate; dilacerate; mutilate; divide; sever. | ||||||||