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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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DWARF, n.
DWARF, v.t. To hinder from growing to the natural size; to lessen; to make or keep small.
An
animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species
or kind; especially, a diminutive human being.
* During the Middle Ages dwarfs as well as fools shared the favor of courts and the nobility. Dwarf is used adjectively in reference to anything much below the usual or normal size; as, dwarf tree; dwarf honeysuckle. Dwarf elder (Bot.), danewort. -- Dwarf wall (Arch.), a low wall, not as high as the story of a building, often used as a garden wall or fence. Gwilt. To hinder from growing to the natural size] to
make or keep small; to stunt.
Addison.
Even the most common moral ideas and affections . . . would be stunted and dwarfed, if cut off from a spiritual background. J. C. Shairp. To become small; to
diminish in size.
Strange power of the world that, the moment we enter it, our great conceptions dwarf. Beaconsfield. | ||||||||