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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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HOB'BLE, v.i.
HOB'BLE, v.t. To perplex. [Not in use.]
HOB'BLE, n. An unequal halting gait; an encumbered awkward step.
To walk lame, bearing chiefly on one leg; to
walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches.
The friar was hobbling the same way too. Dryden. To move roughly or irregularly; -- said of
style in writing.
Prior.
The hobbling versification, the mean diction. Jeffreys. To fetter by tying the legs; to hopple; to clog.
" They
hobbled their horses." Dickens To perplex; to embarrass.
An
unequal gait; a limp; a halt; as, he has a hobble in his
gait.
Swift. Same as Hopple.
Difficulty; perplexity;
embarrassment.
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