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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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EMBOSS', v.t. [en, in, and boss.] In architecture and sculpture, to form bosses or protuberances; to fashion in relievo or raised work; to cut or form with prominent figures.
EMBOSS', v.t. To inclose as in a box; to include; to cover. [Not used.]
EMBOSS', v.t. To inclose in a wood; to conceal in a thicket. [Not used.]
To raise the surface of into bosses or
protuberances] particularly, to ornament with raised work.
Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton. To raise in relief from a surface, as an
ornament, a head on a coin, or the like.
Then o'er the lofty gate his art embossed Exhibiting flowers in their natural color embossed upon a purple ground. Sir W. Scott. To make to foam at the mouth, like a hunted animal.
[Obs.] To hide or conceal in a
thicket] to imbosk; to inclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood.
[Obs.]
In the Arabian woods embossed. Milton. To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to
beset.
A knight her met in mighty arms embossed. Spenser. To seek the bushy
forest; to hide in the woods.
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