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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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HAND'SEL, n.
HAND'SEL, v.t. To use or do any thing the first time.
A sale, gift, or delivery into
the hand of another; especially, a sale, gift, delivery, or using
which is the first of a series, and regarded as an omen for the rest;
a first installment; an earnest; as the first money received for the
sale of goods in the morning, the first money taken at a shop newly
opened, the first present sent to a young woman on her wedding day,
etc.
Their first good handsel of breath in this world. Fuller. Our present tears here, not our present laughter, Price; payment.
[Obs.]
Spenser.
Handsel Monday, the first Monday of the new year, when handsels or presents are given to servants, children, etc. To give a handsel
to.
To use or do for the first time, esp. so
as to make fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally.
No contrivance of our body, but some good man in Scripture hath handseled it with prayer. Fuller. | ||||||||