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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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IM'ITATIVE, a. Inclined to follow in manner; as, man is an imitative being.
Imitative music, is that which is intended to resemble some natural operation, the passions, and the like.
Inclined to imitate, copy, or follow; imitating; exhibiting some
of the qualities or characteristics of a pattern or model; dependent
on example; not original; as, man is an imitative being;
painting is an imitative art.
Formed after a model, pattern, or
original.
This temple, less in form, with equal grace, Designed to imitate
another species of animal, or a plant, or inanimate object, for some
useful purpose, such as protection from enemies; having resemblance
to something else; as, imitative colors; imitative
habits; dendritic and mammillary forms of minerals are
imitative.
-- A
verb expressive of imitation or resemblance.
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