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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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EFFLORESCE, v.t. efflores'. [L. effloresco, from floresco, floreo, to blossom, flos, a flower. See Flower.
To
blossom forth.
Carlyle. To change on the surface,
or throughout, to a whitish, mealy, or crystalline powder, from a
gradual decomposition, esp. from the loss of water, on simple
exposure to the air; as, Glauber's salts, and many others,
effloresce.
To become covered with a whitish crust or
light crystallization, from a slow chemical change between some of
the ingredients of the matter covered and an acid proceeding commonly
from an external source; as, the walls of limestone caverns sometimes
effloresce with nitrate of calcium in consequence of the
action in consequence of nitric acid formed in the
atmosphere.
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