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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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HEL'LEBORE, n. [L. helleborus.] The name of several plants of different genera, the most important of which are the black hellebore, Christmas rose, or Christmas flower, of the genus Helleborus, and the white hellebore, of the genus Veratrum. Both are acrid and poisonous,and are used in medicine as evacuants and alternatives.
A genus of perennial herbs
(Helleborus) of the Crowfoot family, mostly having powerfully
cathartic and even poisonous qualities. H. niger is the
European black hellebore, or Christmas rose, blossoming in winter or
earliest spring. H. officinalis was the officinal hellebore of
the ancients.
Any plant of several species
of the poisonous liliaceous genus Veratrum, especially V.
album and V. viride, both called white
hellebore.
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