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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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DISTRAIN, v.t. [L. Dis and stringo. See Strain. Blackstone writes distrein.]
To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with
violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress,
torment, or afflict.
[Obs.] "Distrained with chains."
Chaucer. To rend; to tear.
[Obs.]
Neither guile nor force might it [a net] distrain. Spenser. To seize,
as a pledge or indemnification; to take possession of as security for
nonpayment of rent, the reparation of an injury done, etc.; to take
by distress; as, to distrain goods for rent, or of an
amercement.
To levy a
distress.
Upon whom I can distrain for debt. Camden. | ||||||||