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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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DROVE, pret. of drive.
DROVE, n.
of
Drive.
A collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for driving;
a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a
body.
Any collection of irrational animals,
moving or driving forward; as, a finny drove.
Milton. A crowd of people in motion.
Where droves, as at a city gate, may pass. Dryden. A road for driving cattle; a
driftway.
[Eng.] A narrow drain or channel
used in the irrigation of land.
Simmonds. A
broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface; --
called also drove chisel.
To drive, as cattle or sheep,
esp. on long journeys] to follow the occupation of a drover.
He's droving now with Conroy's sheep along the Castlereagh. Paterson. To finish, as stone, with a drove or drove
chisel.
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