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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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GER'UND, n. [L. gerundium, from gero, to bear.] In the Latin grammar, a kind of verbal noun, partaking of the nature of a participle.
A kind of verbal noun, having only the
four oblique cases of the singular number, and governing cases like a
participle.
A verbal noun ending in
-e, preceded by to and usually denoting purpose
or end; -- called also the dative infinitive; as, "Ic
hæbbe mete tô etanne" (I have meat to eat.)
In Modern English the name has been applied to verbal or participal
nouns in -ing denoting a transitive action; e. g., by
throwing a stone.
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