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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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FAM'ISH, v.t. [L. fames.]
FAM'ISH, v.i.
To starve, kill, or destroy with
hunger.
Shak. To exhaust the strength or endurance of,
by hunger; to distress with hanger.
And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Cen. xli. 55. The pains of famished Tantalus he'll feel. Dryden. To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity,
by deprivation or denial of anything necessary.
And famish him of breath, if not of bread. Milton. To force or constrain by famine.
He had famished Paris into a surrender. Burke. To die of hunger; to starve.
To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as
to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish.
You are all resolved rather to die than to famish? Shak. To suffer extremity from deprivation of
anything essential or necessary.
The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish. Prov. x. 3. | ||||||||