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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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KNOCK, v.i. nok.
To knock under, to yield; to submit; to acknowledge to be conquered; an expression borrowed from the practice of knocking under the table, when conquered.
KNOCK, v.t. nok. To strike; to drive against; as, to knock the head against a post.
To knock down, to strike down; to fell; to prostrate by a blow or by blows; as, to knock down an ox.
To knock out, to force out by a blow or by blows; as, to knock out the brains.
To knock up, to arouse by knocking. In popular use, to beat out; to fatigue till unable to do more.
To knock off, to force off by beating. At auctions, to assign to a bidder by a blow on the counter.
To knock on the head, to kill by a blow or by blows.
KNOCK, n. nok. A blow; a stroke with something thick or heavy.
To drive
or be driven against something; to strike against something; to
clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.
Bacon. To strike or beat with something hard or
heavy; to rap; as, to knock with a club; to knock on
the door.
For harbor at a thousand doors they knocked. Dryden. Seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Matt. vii. 7. To knock about, to go about, taking knocks or rough usage; to wander about; to saunter. [Colloq.] "Knocking about town." W. Irving. -- To knock up, to fail of strength; to become wearied or worn out, as with labor; to give out. "The horses were beginning to knock up under the fatigue of such severe service." De Quincey. -- To knock off, to cease, as from work; to desist. -- To knock under, to yield; to submit; to acknowledge one's self conquered; -- an expression probably borrowed from the practice of knocking under the table with the knuckles, when conquered. "Colonel Esmond knocked under to his fate." Thackeray. To strike with something hard or heavy; to
move by striking; to drive (a thing) against something; as, to
knock a ball with a bat; to knock the head against a
post; to knock a lamp off the table.
When heroes knock their knotty heads together. Rowe. To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as
a door.
Master, knock the door hard. Shak. To knock down. A
blow; a stroke with something hard or heavy; a jar.
A stroke, as on a door for admittance; a
rap.
" A knock at the door." Longfellow.
A loud cry or some great knock. Holland. Knock off, a device in a knitting machine to remove loops from the needles. To practice evil
speaking or fault-finding; to criticize habitually or
captiously.
[Vulgar Slang, U. S.] To impress strongly or
forcibly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause.
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