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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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DISPLACEMENT, n. The act of displacing; the act of removing from the usual or proper place, or from a state, condition or office.
The act of
displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of
place.
Unnecessary displacement of funds. A. Hamilton. The displacement of the sun by parallax. Whewell. The quantity of anything, as water,
displaced by a floating body, as by a ship, the weight of the
displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing
body.
The process of extracting
soluble substances from organic material and the like, whereby a
quantity of saturated solvent is displaced, or removed, for
another quantity of the solvent.
Piston displacement (Mech.), the volume of the space swept through, or weight of steam, water, etc., displaced, in a given time, by the piston of a steam engine or pump. | ||||||||